On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, ant wrote: > On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, deloptes wrote: > > > > > > > > Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed, so > > > I have installed it, and now I get no desktop icon. > > > But I can mount it from the cli, possibly because I have an fstab entry. > > > But experiments are continuing... > > > > > > > can you check if this somehow applies to you please? > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=650299 > > YES! As in the bug report, I edited > /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy > > and set the section '<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">' to > be '<allow_any>yes</allow_any>' and '<allow_active>yes</allow_active>' > > and now it works as advertised. Thank you. UPDATE: Now it has stopped working. I get an icon, and: -------------- Unable to mount this device. Potential reasons include: Improper device and/or user privilege level Corrupt data on storage device Technical details: org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.PermissionDenied: Not Authorized: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1 was not provided by any .service files ps aux gives: kded [tdeinit] --new-startup I am in plugdev. The .policy file is as above. Where next to look? cheers ant -- Sent from my linux system running Debian 8, desktop Trinity R14 This email is plain text, not HTML. Any attachments are either .jpg or .pdf