Xfce-4.4.3 and FBSD-7.1 USB Stick Help

[Alexander Toresson]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 8:27 PM, Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net> wrote:
> Greets All:
>
> I've been away from FBSD and Xfce for a bit but am bringing up a
> fbsd-7.1 and xfce-4.4.3 box for my kids to use and need for them to be
> able to have +/- no brainer ability to share USB sticks with Winblows
> machines as mortal users.  I'm old dog w/limited experience with USB
> sticks and simply su'd up to root when necessary.  I've followed FBSD
> handbook instructions w.r.t. devfs.rules and sysctl.conf changes
> outlined here:
>
> <http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html>
>
> Xcfe sees the USB stick when I plug it in but I'm unable to mount it as
> non-root user.  From /var/log/messages:
>
>
>> Jan 29 12:04:05 athena root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x05dc product 0xa710 bus uhub0
>> Jan 29 12:04:05 athena kernel: umass0: <Crucial Gizmo! Plus, class 0/0, rev 2.00/11.00, addr 2> on uhub0
>> Jan 29 12:04:06 athena kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
>> Jan 29 12:04:06 athena kernel: da0: <Crucial Gizmo! Plus 1100> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device
>> Jan 29 12:04:06 athena kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
>> Jan 29 12:04:06 athena kernel: da0: 956MB (1957888 512 byte sectors: 64H 32S/T 956C)
>> Jan 29 12:04:19 athena console-kit-daemon[836]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_hash_table_lookup: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
>> Jan 29 12:04:19 athena console-kit-daemon[836]: GLib-CRITICAL: g_hash_table_destroy: assertion `hash_table != NULL' failed
>
> Any help ironing this out would be much appreciated.
>
> On related note, I recently brought up KDE4, Gnome, and Xfce4 and turned
> the kids loose to explore for a couple days.  Posted some of their
> thoughts at LQ DE of the year polls here:
>
> <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/2008-linuxquestions.org-members-choice-awards-83/desktop-environment-of-the-year-695620/page3.html#post3421995>
>
>
> TIA-- Ken
>
> --
> Ken Gunderson <kgunders at teamcool.net>
>

You need to enable the user to mount pluggable partitions with hal.
How this is done is distro-specific, tho it's usually done through
groups. On at least some distros the group in question is plugdev.
Take a look at /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf to see what your hal
policy is.

// Alexander