FreeBSD Port: sysutils/policykit

[Aragon Gouveia]

| By Rechistov Grigory (???????? ????????) <ggg_mail at inbox.ru>
|                                          [ 2008-06-18 23:49 +0200 ]
> I recently updated HAL to hal-0.5.11_1, PolicyKit to policykit-0.8_2. And  
> now different file managers (konqueror, Thunar)
>  refuse to mount my external USB storage devices. The error message is  
> "org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)."  
> Google showed that the similar problem has arisen in OpenSuse 10.3, and  
> the reason was in some wrong PolicyKit rules. But actually I have no idea  
> how to fix it for now in FreeBSD.
> 
> I am using FreeBSD 6.2 x86

Try add the following to /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf

    <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
         <match user="<user>">
              <return result="yes"/>
         </match>
    </match>

replacing <user> with your username.


Regards,
Aragon