Pmount should be a system utility for users to be able to mount removable devices, but the current ebuild turns things around by not giving any executing rights to normal users. I've tested only with pmount-hal so far. I also had to SetUID the pmount-hal executable to root before I was able to use gnome-volume-manager 1.5.0 as a normal user. I found the problem when I was inserting a USB-stick which was detected by HAL (0.5.x), but not mounted by gnome-volume-manager because it wasn't running while it should. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Emerge pmount (0.9.3-r3). 2. Emerge and run HAL (0.5.4), DBUS (0.36.1) and gnome-volume-manger (1.5.0). 3. Login as a normal user in GNOME. 3. Run gnome-volume-manager in for example a terminal. Actual Results: When I ran gnome-volume-manager as a user from gnome-terminal it gave me an error not being able to execute pmount-hal: manager.c/1071: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_2cf94080_6b87_47e2_abc4_653ce01ed983... manager.c/630: executing command: /usr/bin/pmount-hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_2cf94080_6b87_47e2_abc4_653ce01ed983 /bin/sh: /usr/bin/pmount-hal: Permission denied Expected Results: Gnome-volume-manager should've started and added mountpoints for any already connected device. Emerge --info: Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.3.6, glibc-2.3.5-r1, 2.6.13-gentoo i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.13-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre7 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5, 2.4.1-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.12 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe -march=athlon-xp -msse -mmmx -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.nl.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bluetooth browserplugin bzip2 cairo cdda cdr crypt cups curl dbus dga divx4linux dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif fam fbcon ffmpeg firefox foomaticdb fortran freetype ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal howl ieee1394 imagemagick imlib ipv6 java javascript jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww lirc lm_sensors mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozsvg mp3 mpeg msn mysql ncurses nls nocd nvidia ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pdflib perl php png python qt quicktime readline ruby samba sdl sockets spell sse ssl svga symlink tcltk tcpd theora tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb v4l vcd videos vorbis win32codecs wxwindows xine xinerama xml xml2 xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
What groups are you in? After emerging pmount, the following information is displayed... * This package has been installed setuid. The permissions are as such that * only users that belong to the plugdev group are allowed to run this. * * Please add your user to the plugdev group to be able to mount USB drives If your user is not in the plugdev group, you won't be able to use pmount.
It was stupid of me to oversee that before I was posting this message. But I emerged alot of packages in one time so I guess I just didn't see the notice. Thanks for the clearup and the quick response!
While permissions are set correcetly (execute-rights for the group plugdev on pmount-hal) and my user added to the group plugdev, I still get the same error as I mentioned above. Is there a way to explain that?
Do you have the /media directory? And when you added yourself to plugdev, did you log out completely so that the groups would take effect? (You can run the command "groups" to see if it shows you as being in the plugdev group) - I have the exact same setup, and everything works fine here.
No response from the reported, closing WFM
