USB automount fails

[Casey Stamper]

Hansen Tanjung wrote:
> On 8/9/07, *Casey Stamper* <casey.stamper at gmail.com 
> <mailto:casey.stamper at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Okay. So I plugged in my USB stick to my laptop after all the latest
>     updates (today) and I got this error:
>     org.freedesktop.Hal.PermissionDenied. I looked in Places and it was
>     there but I couldn't access it. I googled the error text and one of the
>     solutions was to use system-config-services and enable the ConsoleKit
>     service. I did that and did a Ctrl-Alt-Bksp (maybe not necessary) and
>     now I can access the drive fine.
> 
>     This kind of behavior is definitely NOT user-friendly and while it may
>     be trivial for me and many subscribers of this list, the typical
>     end-user would be lost.
> 
>     Comments?
> 
>     --
>     Casey Stamper
>     http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress
>     <http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress>
> 
> I think ConsoleKit service is on by default and typical end-user never 
> touch that service, so no problemo here ;-)
> 
> -- 
> Hansen
> http://hansen.alfansa.org <http://hansen.alfansa.org>
> 
It's entirely *possible* that in my zeal to turn off "unused" services 
in order to free up resources on my dated laptop, I might have done 
something I shouldn't have. :)

-- 
Casey Stamper
http://www.stampersite.com/wordpress