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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