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Sounds almost like an SELinux thing... Do you have SELinux turned on? If so, try to turn it off and try it again.<br><br><br>Oct 18, 2008 08:57:16 PM, nflug@nflug.org wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(102, 153, 204);">What the HAL is going on?<br><br>I just love innocuous upgrades with unforeseen consequences.<br>I am running kubuntu hardy with up to date packages.<br><br>I just plugged in two different thumb drives and got locked out of<br>them. When I click on the desktop icon that appears after I plug the<br>drive in, konqueror tries to open them but fails with the following<br>message box:<br><br>A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this<br>message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected<br>message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "mount"<br>error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")<br><br>Next, I su'd to root and created a /media/thumb drive directory. I<br>tried to chmod it to 777 and to chown it to my user.<br>Both requests were ignored even though I was root! <br><br>Finally, I mounted the thumb drive (mount /dev/sdb1 /media/thumb drive)<br>and copied my stuff to it as root from the command line. It's a fat32,<br>so permissions don't matter, at least in this case, but having to do<br>this was ridiculous.<br><br>I'm not "all thumbs", but I do need them!<br><br>Any ideas on fixing this so normal users can access thumb drives again?<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>Joe<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>nflug mailing list<br>nflug@nflug.org<br>http://www.nflug.org/mailman/listinfo/nflug<br></blockquote></body></html>