problem with hal and policykit

[JoeHill]

JoeHill wrote: 

> There was a large update last night for my Debian Testing system, and it's
> caused some problems with mounting external drives.
> 
> I get this error when trying to mount my USB drive:
> 
> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result).
> 
> I've looked at several search results with that exact phrase, and they all
> poin to this PolicyKit, and recommend editing its config files...not sure
> whether I want to go and do that without further guidance.
> 
> Anyone else ran into this?

Apparently not...

Okay, this fixed it, in case anyone does:

edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, add:

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

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J
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