Mount USB, Shutdown,

Question

Hello,
I'm not very new to Linux and switched to arch after using Ubuntu and a little bit gentoo and Mandriva. So I know how to mount beeing root, howto modify confugration files (fstab),
But here is some things that not works, probably a configuration to adjust : I able to mount with the xfce panel since I added a entry in the fstab, but I am unable to write as normal user. This is not useful when I need programs to write (editors). On the others distro this worked the first time. I plugged the key and the Icons appeared on the desktop and where mountable. My user is added to storage and the groups necessary to access usb drives. (May be not all).
2. I'm unable to shutdown the laptop with xfce. I have to enter as root and write halt each time. If needed I will bring the error message of xfce wich says something like unable to access ????????.
3. Some others errors appears during the start of xfce like ???missing on display????
Yes I know I should bring more infos. They will follow if some one answers to the first
Thanks for all.

Answer 1

On a Winbox right now, so I can't check my files. I had the same issue (well both of them actually). As I recall the shutdown and reboot from X, was another policy.fdi for HAL. I'll check back when I get home and boot the archbox - if there is no answer yet I post again.
Yes I think that was it. this is my
/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">
<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->
<config version="0.1">
<match user="$storage_users">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
<match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
<return result="yes" />
</match>
</match>
<match user="$power_users">
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot">
<return result="yes"/>
</match>
</match>
</config>
Anyway I started at this threadhttp://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64951&p=2, but where I found this part
<match user="$power_users">
I'm not sure, but I doubt I thought it up myself , anyway if the "match user" is left out as I understand it anybody(any user I suppose) can just reboot and shutdown at will. Some see this as a problem, so I'd just mention it.
Last edited by XAD (2009-03-11 21:16:40)