[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#486496: [udev, cryptsetup, devmapper, hal, kde] unable to mount usb disk (ide)

[Nadav Kavalerchik]

Package: udev,cryptsetup,devmapper,hal,kde
Severity: normal

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i plugin a usb disk (it is actually an ide disk that is inside a usb box. it 
has network access too) and i get this message after i press "open in 
konqueror" in the "kde daemon" auto-mount dialog:

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to 
this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had 
interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error 
name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

i checked these threads to see that i have no security issue:
http://www.jefferyfernandez.id.au/2007/07/26/a-security-policy-in-place-prevents-mounting-of-volumes/

and i have added root user (in which i have this issue, btw) to the plugdev 
and powerdev groups (restarted hal) with no success.

i can mount the this device manually and i can automount (with kde-daemon) 
several other usb sticks without any problem.

i have checked /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf and it seems to allow root to do 
all it needs to mount usb devices. (i can post it, if you need)

here is dmesg for this usb device:
[20430.693371] usb 1-1.4: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 
11
[20430.792334] usb 1-1.4: not running at top speed; connect to a high speed 
hub
[20430.809081] usb 1-1.4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[20430.813728] scsi5 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[20430.817370] usb 1-1.4: New USB device found, idVendor=067b, idProduct=2506
[20430.817379] usb 1-1.4: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
SerialNumber=3
[20430.817383] usb 1-1.4: Product: Mass Storage Device
[20430.817385] usb 1-1.4: Manufacturer: Prolific Technology Inc.
[20430.817388] usb 1-1.4: SerialNumber: 00
[20430.817786] usb-storage: device found at 11
[20430.817793] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[20435.817633] usb-storage: device scan complete
[20435.855461] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Maxtor 5 T040H4           TAH7 
PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[20435.871605] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 80043264 512-byte hardware sectors (40982 MB)
[20435.884596] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[20435.884606] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[20435.884609] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[20435.895576] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 80043264 512-byte hardware sectors (40982 MB)
[20435.908590] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[20435.908600] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[20435.908603] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[20435.908609]  sdb: sdb1
[20435.937242] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

i use:
hal:  0.5.11-1
kde: 3.5.9
udev: 0.114-2


--- System information. ---
Architecture: i386
Kernel:       Linux 2.6.26-rc5-686

Debian Release: lenny/sid
  500 unstable        www.debian-multimedia.org 
  500 unstable        mirror.isoc.org.il 
  500 testing         mirror.isoc.org.il 
  500 kernel-dists-trunk kernel-archive.buildserver.net 
  500 experimental    www.debian-multimedia.org 
    1 experimental    mirror.isoc.org.il 

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