Udevil/devmon won't unmount.

Hey guys, I've finally gotten around to setting up automount on my Arch system, and I've installed udevil-git from the aur.
I'm running devmon in the background from my openbox autostart file. Mounting works perfectly but it seems that I don't have permissions to unmount. I'm lgging in using LXDM and my file manager is marlin, I can unmount running marlin as root but not as a user.
I've checked the udevil suid and I'm pretty sure I have kernel polling enabled:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/udevil
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root root 181930 Aug 19 20:12 /usr/bin/udevil
$ cat /sys/module/block/parameters/events_dfl_poll_msecs
2000
$ cat /sys/block/sr0/events_poll_msecs
cat: /sys/block/sr0/events_poll_msecs: No such file or directory
I got those last two commands from the udevil homepage, I'm a little concerned about the output of the last one, is that where my problem lies? As you can probably tell, I don't really know what these commands are returning.
What am I missing here? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers,
Toby.
##UPDATE##
I never found out how to graphically unmount in pcmanfm via udevil but swicthed to udiskie and everything works...
Last edited by TobyJamesJoy (2012-09-14 13:01:32)

Last night I installed Arch on my other machine (full time archer now) along with udevil, I'm starting devmon and openbox in the same way as my other machine (except with pcmanfm instead of marlin) but I'm still experiencing the same problems: Operation not permitted. I must be overlooking something, does anyone have an idea?
Thanks,
Toby.
Last edited by TobyJamesJoy (2012-09-12 07:12:04)

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