Package: hal Version: 0.5.11-2 Severity: important Although very similar to #486496 this one is because hal no longer honours groups added to the user by pam_group.
I upgraded a machine from etch to lenny and no can no longer mount USB disks and whatnot via thunar; identical error that Mr #486496 was getting. So this got me thinking, in my /etc/security/group.conf file I have: === gdm;:*;*;Al0000-2400;audio,floppy,video,cdrom,plugdev,powerdev === And it does truely work, when I log in and type 'id' into an xterm I am a member of the plugdev group. With etch this was enough, however with hal in lenny this is not the case and it seems to only care about whatever lurks in /etc/group :( When I manually add my user to /etc/group I can mount and umount to my hearts content. If course running pmount from an xterm with the pam_group method works, but then I'm in an xterm. I'm guessing hal is evaluating the user from outside the context of pam and just as a raw user...or something? Cheers -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.25-2-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii dbus 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii hal-info 20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f ii libc6 2.7-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.1-3 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.76-1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 2.0.1-4 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libgcc1 1:4.3.1-2 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.4-2 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal-storage1 0.5.11-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libhal1 0.5.11-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libsmbios1 0.13.13-1 Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa ii libstdc++6 4.3.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-12 userspace USB programming library ii libvolume-id0 0.125-5 libvolume_id shared library ii lsb-base 3.2-19 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip ii mount 2.13.1.1-1 Tools for mounting and manipulatin ii pciutils 1:3.0.0-4 Linux PCI Utilities ii pm-utils 1.1.2.3-1 utilities and scripts for power ma ii udev 0.125-5 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.73-8 Linux USB utilities Versions of packages hal recommends: ii eject 2.1.5+deb1-1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer pn libsmbios-bin <none> (no description available) Versions of packages hal suggests: pn gnome-device-manager <none> (no description available) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]