Hi,

I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy with a
normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the 'plugdev' group
with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that doesn't seem to
work. I am, however, able to mount and browse the flash drive as root
using Thunar.

I am running Openbox with tint2, and I start them with the 'startx'
command with the .xinitrc file. Could there possibly be an issue from
that? Possibly with udisks or udev? Any ideas on what I should? I'm
thinking about doing another reinstall but I highly doubt that would
fix this issue.

Thanks,
John


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On 06/19/2011 01:30 AM, John Mollman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy with a
> normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the 'plugdev' group
> with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that doesn't seem to
> work. I am, however, able to mount and browse the flash drive as root
> using Thunar.
>
try
$john groups

That will show you the groups you are in.

> I am running Openbox with tint2, and I start them with the 'startx'
> command with the .xinitrc file. Could there possibly be an issue from
> that? Possibly with udisks or udev? Any ideas on what I should? I'm
> thinking about doing another reinstall but I highly doubt that would
> fix this issue.

I don't think so. I run fluxbox the same way as you and it is working
ok there.

Take a look at the pmount package.


HTH
Wayne


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Some time ago I had a similar persistent problem in Hardy. I tried many things but the only way I could solve it was by adding an entry in fstab for my flash drives. That worked for me because I rarely had to mount any other drives but those two:

UUID=4C27-9760 /media/disk vfat user,umask=007,utf8,flush,noauto 0 0
UUID=3FF1-8D24 /media/disk2 vfat user,umask=007,utf8,flush,noauto 0 0

--- On Sun, 6/19/11, John Mollman <jw.mollman@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: John Mollman <jw.mollman@gmail.com>
> Subject: Not authorized to mount flash drive with normal account
> To: "debian-user" <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Date: Sunday, June 19, 2011, 12:30 AM
> Hi,
>
> I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy
> with a
> normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the
> 'plugdev' group
> with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that
> doesn't seem to
> work. I am, however, able to mount and browse the flash
> drive as root
> using Thunar.
>
> I am running Openbox with tint2, and I start them with the
> 'startx'
> command with the .xinitrc file. Could there possibly be an
> issue from
> that? Possibly with udisks or udev? Any ideas on what I
> should? I'm
> thinking about doing another reinstall but I highly doubt
> that would
> fix this issue.
>
> Thanks,
> John
>
>
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On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 1:30 AM, John Mollman <jw.mollman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am still unable to mount my flash drive on Debian wheezy with a
> normal user account. I have tried adding myself to the 'plugdev' group
> with the command 'usermod -a -G plugdev john' but that doesn't seem to
> work. I am, however, able to mount and browse the flash drive as root
> using Thunar.

I had the same problem and (with the help of this list) found it was a
bug in consolekit. Downgrade to consolekit 0.4.1-4, reboot, and the
problem should go away. I just recently tried upgrading, recreated
the problem, downgraded, and now all is well again. I'm now holding
consolekit at that version. The bug is #597937, and it does not
appear that it's ever going to be fixed!

Patrick


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Hi,

On Sun, Jun 19, 2011 at 16:00, Patrick Wiseman <pwiseman@gmail.com> wrote:
> Downgrade to consolekit 0.4.1-4, reboot, and the
> problem should go away.

I just did an aptitude safe-upgrade on my Sid after pinning consolekit
to 0.4.1-4 and now i can mount as a normal user again.

HTH and thanks,
Nuno


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