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

[Michael Biebl]

Paolo Benvenuto wrote:
> 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).

If the device was not listed in /media/.hal-mtab, then indeed it was 
*not* mounted by hal. Hal itself doesn't do any automounting. It's the 
desktop environment (gnome-volume-manager, kde kded_mediamager etc.) 
which does the mounting (through hal).
Which environment are you using? The bug should be reassigned there.

Cheers,
Michael


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