mounting removable media never seems to work
Nathanael D. Noblet
nathanael at gnat.ca
Tue Nov 27 18:14:50 UTC 2007
Florin Andrei wrote:
> Mounting USB sticks, DVDs, CDs, etc - this works flawlessly with other
> distributions I've tried (Ubuntu), but with Fedora it's something that
> seems to stop working randomly, whenever the packages update to jour
> changes something in the system.
>
> I've a F7 system, fully updated, and now when I insert a USB stick, I
> get the HAL error "permission denied: not in active session".
>
> This is annoying because it's something that's supposed to just work. It
> does work in Ubuntu. Heck, it works fine in XP. But not in Fedora.
> Moreover, it's not a new thing. Previous releases of Fedora used to
> display this same problem, which never seems to be solved completely.
>
> It's like "removable media? who cares whether it works properly or not?"
> Come one, people, wake up.
Odd, its been working flawlessly for me since F5-F8. I've never even
seen that message above. Do you know what the cause is? Or just that
message?
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