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I'm have a 500G WD "My Book" USB hard drive which I would like to use |
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for a backup drive. Other USB drives - flash drives - automount on |
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directories in /media with names such as /media/TRAVELDRIVE, etc. I'm |
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not sure where or how these mountpoints are established and what |
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mechanism is used to automount. |
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When I plug in the WD USB hard drive, I get an error dialog: |
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Cannot mount volume: |
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Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied |
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Details |
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A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending |
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this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration |
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file (rejected message had interface |
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"org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name |
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"(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal") |
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What's the meaning of this and how do I get the system to automount the |
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drive on a proper mountpoint in /media/ ?? |
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This appears to be related to policies in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf |
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which contain a number of rules, including: |
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<!-- Allow anyone to invoke methods on the Manager and Device interfaces --> |
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<policy context="default"> |
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<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager"/> |
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<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device"/> |
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<allow receive_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager" |
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receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> |
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<allow receive_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device" |
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receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> |
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<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/> |
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<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/> |
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<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/> |
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<allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/> |
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<allow receive_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement" |
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receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> |
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<allow receive_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel" |
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receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> |
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<allow receive_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" |
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receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> |
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<allow receive_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto" |
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receive_sender="org.freedesktop.Hal"/> |
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</policy> |
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<!-- Default policy for the exported interfaces --> |
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<policy context="default"> |
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<deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/> |
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<deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.VideoAdapterPM"/> |
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<deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/> |
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<deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/> |
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<deny send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/> |
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</policy> |
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