[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#492641: hal: Mounting SATA partitions fails with insufficient privileges

[Bernd Böckmann]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-2
Severity: important

I can not mount SATA partitions of any filesystem type by using gnome-mount or 
nautilus (clicking on the drive icon). Mounting USB-Drives works perfectly. 
It has something to do with permissions:

bernd at debian:~$ gnome-mount -t -d /dev/sda5
gnome-mount 0.7

** (gnome-mount:4708): WARNING **: Mount failed for 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_1ec163a7_e781_4699_9680_35d9e5c7143b
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.PermissionDenied : Refusing to mount device /dev/sda5 for uid=1000.

The user is a member of the following groups:

bernd at debian:~$ getent group | grep bernd
adm:x:4:bernd
disk:x:6:bernd
dialout:x:20:bernd
fax:x:21:bernd
cdrom:x:24:bernd
floppy:x:25:bernd
tape:x:26:bernd
sudo:x:27:bernd
audio:x:29:bernd
dip:x:30:bernd
video:x:44:bernd
plugdev:x:46:bernd
users:x:100:bernd
netdev:x:109:bernd
lpadmin:x:110:bernd
powerdev:x:112:bernd
scanner:x:113:bernd
bernd:x:1000:


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.108                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.2.1-2                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-10                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-2                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4                XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.1-2              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.4-2               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-2               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1        0.13.13-1              Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.1-2                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-12            userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.114-2                libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-12                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-4              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.3-1              utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.114-2                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-8                 Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                         2.1.5-10   ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  libsmbios-bin                 <none>     (no description available)

Versions of packages hal suggests:
pn  gnome-device-manager          <none>     (no description available)

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