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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Unable to mount USB sticks using file manager
From:       Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk () gmail ! com>
Date:       2016-11-27 12:43:55
Message-ID: CAJ1xhMVbJcG6y5zK8GWQ6zu+Se2H=Sf2Dg+J3mpfju_S25B+yQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Nov 27, 2016 at 11:38 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 27 Nov 2016 09:40:55 Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I'm not sure what I am missing on a laptop to be able to mount USB sticks
>> > as plain user.  This laptop has been built with a no-multilib profile.
>> > The users are members of the plugdev group.
>> >
>> > I don't want to create an fstab entry to be able to do this, because
>> > various USB sticks are being plugged in at any time.  In dolphin I get
>> > this error reported:
>> >
>> > "An error occurred while accessing '512MB', the system responded:  An
>> > unspecified error has occurred:  Not authorized to perform operation."
> [snip ...]
>
>> I used the instructions given in the forum post below to set up
>> automatic mounting of removable drives on my systems.
>> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-start-0.html
>
> Just what I was looking for, thanks!  :-)
>
> It seems the no-multilib profile does not have consolekit enabled by default,
> so I had to add it and also unmerge upower-pm-utils and emerge upower.
>
> It now works as I wanted it.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick

No worries.

Good to hear it worked out for you.

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