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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount USB sticks using file manager
Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2016 09:38:46
Message-Id: 2605602.ax4PNbEKjf@dell_xps
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount USB sticks using file manager by Alexander Kapshuk
1 On Sunday 27 Nov 2016 09:40:55 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
2 > On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > I'm not sure what I am missing on a laptop to be able to mount USB sticks
6 > > as plain user. This laptop has been built with a no-multilib profile.
7 > > The users are members of the plugdev group.
8 > >
9 > > I don't want to create an fstab entry to be able to do this, because
10 > > various USB sticks are being plugged in at any time. In dolphin I get
11 > > this error reported:
12 > >
13 > > "An error occurred while accessing '512MB', the system responded: An
14 > > unspecified error has occurred: Not authorized to perform operation."
15 [snip ...]
16
17 > I used the instructions given in the forum post below to set up
18 > automatic mounting of removable drives on my systems.
19 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html
20
21 Just what I was looking for, thanks! :-)
22
23 It seems the no-multilib profile does not have consolekit enabled by default,
24 so I had to add it and also unmerge upower-pm-utils and emerge upower.
25
26 It now works as I wanted it.
27
28 --
29 Regards,
30 Mick

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