gnome-volume-manager not working

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> I am running Dapper and have dbus, hal, and gnome-volume-manager
> installed but no matter what I do I cannot get Gnome to mount my ipod
> automatically when I plug it in.  It does show up in "Places->Computer"
> but if I double click it I get a useless "Unable to mount the selected
> volume" error dialog - "Show More Details" says "error: could not
> execute pmount".  /usr/bin/pmount does exist.
> 
> It works if I mount it manually from the command line so I know this is
> a Gnome problem not a kernel one.
> 
> What am I missing here?

Sounds like you aren't in the plugdev group for some reason (the installer
sets all of this up correctly for you).

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 - mdz