[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#524824: Bug#524824: policykit: mounting removable drives in KDE4 stopped working with default settings

[Michael Biebl]

Marcus Better wrote:
> Package: policykit
> Version: 0.9-3
> Severity: normal
> 
> Today I was suddenly unable to mount a removable USB drive (a digital
> camera) in KDE4, something that used to work before. In between I have
> updated a bunch of packages, notably from KDE 4.2.1 to 4.2.2, so maybe
> it's related to this.
> 
> The device shows up in the plugged devices widget, but selecting the
> drive's icon in Dolphin gives a message about PermissionDenied for the
> action "org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable".
> 
> Some web searches turned up a workaround, I added the following rule
> PolicyKit.conf and it started working:
> 
>     <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable"> 
>         <return result="yes" />
>     </match>
> 
> I think this should work out of the box.

Could you please remove this rule again, reboot and try again.
If that doesn't work, please send me the output of ck-list-sessions.

Michael
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