On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, ant wrote:

On Thu, 01 Oct 2015, deloptes wrote:

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Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed,

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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