Mounting issue.

Hiya.
So, I've found myself in a weird situation that I have never encountered before. If I put a CD or DVD in to my computer, I can play it with VLC, rip it with Sound Juicer/dvd::rip etc. but when it comes to actually mounting it I get issues. Thunar doesn't mount the audio CDs at all (they don't show up in the sidebar, I mean) but it does attempt to mount other CDs, DVDs and removable USB drives. I have the volume manager enabled. However, it fails each time with the following error.
Failed to mount "Bleach 1"
Xlib: extension "RANDR" missing on display ":0.0".
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules;
type="method_call", sender=":1.35" (uid=1000 pid=2470 comm="exo-mount)
interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"
member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0
destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=1870 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))
Like I said, I can watch DVDs and listen to CDs fine, but can't get at the files on them. Additionally, if I was to do "ls /media/cd" or "ls /media/dvd" there are no files to see, so I'm not sure what's going on. I was under the impression that discs and devices have to be mounted before you could access them.
If anyone could help, I'd appreciate it a lot. So far I haven't been able to make any progress with this.
Kind regards,
Joel.

phohammer wrote:
I am having the same problem. I also edited hal.conf as the OP did, but I am now lost as to how to "make sure that it's nice and secure". Anyone know how to do this?
BTW:
My user is a membr of the groups wheel and storage, but could still not mount drives without hal.conf being edited as mentioned above...
My user was also a member of both those groups. Seems that editing hal.conf is necessary regardless. As for making sure it's nice and secure, I just copied and pasted the following block as a whole without reading what it did and changed the line "<policy at_console="true">" to "<policy group="wheel">".

<policy at_console="true">
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
<allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan"/>
</policy>
I didn't know at the time if I wanted all members of wheel to be able to do all of those things, so I planned on going through it again later to make any changes I felt necessary. It turns out, the only one that other members of wheel need is storage, so what I have now done is cut that section down to just the storage bit and added the entire block with "<policy user="joel">" (where joel is the account name I use) instead. That way, only I and root can make use of everything within that block.
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