Bug#884530: trying to mount removable drives as root

one more piece of information I thought of. As root, I tried running the script I mentioned in message 46 above https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=884530#46 This is the output. no success: [root@sid bin]# pwd /home/ed/Dropbox/bin [root@sid bin]# ./mountallUSB Error connecting

Bug#884530: command line suspend, hibernate, power off

all these work from the command line as root systemctl suspend systemctl hibernate systemctl poweroff

Bug#884530: how I am attempting to mount the removable drives

I am using xfce4 desktop. one of the applications I run at startup is a script, which I found online, to automatically mount any connected removable USB drives. the script is shown here: [ed@sid ~]$ cat ~/Dropbox/bin/mountallUSB #!/bin/sh udisksctl dump |   awk -F':\n' -v'RS=\n\n' '/[ \t]*Hi

Bug#884530: additional information

output of attempt to install udisks2 [root@sid ed]# apt install udisks2 Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done udisks2 is already the newest version (2.7.5-1+nosystemd.1). 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded

Bug#884530: same problem here

I am using sid and keeping the system updated daily. Since an update I did yesterday, I am unable to mount removeable drives as a user. And "suspend" and "shutdown" are grayed out in the dropdown list of actions for logging out. I am using, right now the xfce4 desktop. The problem started af