[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#462475: hal mounts usb disks as root instead as the gnome user

[Paolo Benvenuto]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.10-5
Severity: normal

I have an ide to usb external disk interface, the ME-720U2. It's a DIY kit for 3.5" devices,
an external enclosure. It connects to usb port, and the kernel recognizes it.

Hal does recognize it too: I can see that the disk mount applet shows me the partitions of the ide disk,
and within a few seconds all the partition are mounted, and are named usb0, usb1, etc.

However, when I try to copy some file to one of those partition, I'm told I haven't the wright permissions.
Actually I can see that those partitions are mounted as root:root, and the permissions are
rw-r--r--, so that I as a user cannot use them, although I use sudo or convert myself into the root user.

This is different from what happens with cd's, that are mounted as user:root.

Besides that, I as the gnome user cannot umount them from the disk mounter applet. When I try to umount them,
a window shows with the error:
"device to unmount is not in /media/.hal-mtab so it is not mounted by HAL", and that appears incorrect,
since hal mounted them (I suppose: they were mounted automatically).

In order to umount those partitions I must sudo umount them manually.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=es_DO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=es_DO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser                 3.105            add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                    1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info                20071212-2       Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6                   2.7-6            GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3             1.1.2-1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2        0.74-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1               1.95.8-4         XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0            2.14.5-2         The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1         0.5.10-5         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1                 0.5.10-5         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1              0.13.10-1        Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20080116-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4            2:0.1.12-9       userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0           0.114-2          libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base                3.1-24           Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii  mount                   2.13.1-1         Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils                1:2.2.4-1.1      Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils                0.99.2-3         utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev                    0.114-2          /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils                0.73-5           Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-6    ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin                 0.13.10-1  Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

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