Not authorized to mount flash drive in gnome

Galumph

When plugging in a flash drive I get "Unable to mount 1.0 GB filesystem: Not authorized."

I've added myself to both plugdev and usb, is there another group I should be in for this to work?

paulusbrand · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 111

What version of gnome or gnome-light are you using. Big chance you don't need gnome-volume manager, gnome uses gnome-disk-utily nowadays. You have to authorize yourself for udisks it's a policykit rule you need to edit. I can't find the details right now. But google should help finding it.

Galumph · Posted: Mon Aug 23, 2010 12:27 pm Post subject:

How do I check which version I have? I had gnome installed when I first installed my system, which was maybe a month or two ago, so it should be pretty recent.
I tried emerging udisks, if that's what you meant, but I get this error and a lot of red text:

paulusbrand · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 111

Month or two? Your gnome is pretty old then :wink:

Do:

emerge --sync

emerge -pvuDN world

check the list. Make sure automount useflag is enabled for gnome.
If you get blocks, try to unmerge the packages that cause the block, "sys-apps/devicekit-disks" would be one. But don't unmerge stuff that breaks portage!
Also check for libpng if you come from 1.2 and update to 1.4 it can cause some problems. Search forum for answer.

emerge -uDN world

to update all your packages.

reboot or logout and in to check if automount works.

Good luck

PS. Dont try to manually merge udisks. Udisks wil be a dependency of gnome and therefore emerged automatically when updating gnome with automount useflag.

bear24rw · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2010 Posts: 28

try this:

user@user-gentoo ~ $ cat .xinitrc
export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session

then restart x

if that doesnt fix it, then remove automount from use flags and -uDNav world and then reboot to be safe

if that doesnt fix it, try rc-update add consolekit default, reboot to be safe

paulusbrand · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 111

Consolekit should always be running if you do "export XDG_MENU_PREFIX=gnome-
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session". The command is useless without consolekit running.

And if you want to automount the proper way you enable the automount useflag and let portage resolve dependancies. Automount will work fine this way, but you need to update all your gnome packages first.