[solved] USB drives won't auto mount

When I plug in a drive, I get this error message:
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.24" (uid=1000 pid=4499 comm="exo-mount) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=3069 comm="/usr/sbin/hald)).
2nd harddrive:
Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.20" (uid=1000 pid=3537 comm="exo-mount) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=3058 comm="/usr/sbin/hald)).
There are fixes in other forums, but they are all radically differnet, and the one's I tried aren't working.
I have an eee pc with xfce and slim.
I know this is a perimssion problems since auto mount works fine for root. Could anyone tell me the (probably simple) fix for this? Thanks.
Last edited by Meskarune (2010-04-15 04:21:08)

HAL:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Troubleshooting
Also check your .xinitrc and make sure your lines matches this:
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
Lastly, you can also use udev to automount your drives:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … SB_devices

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ewaller wrote:Does Dolphin show the volumes?
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