Problem mounting a USB flashdrive on Intrepid

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Wed, 12/3/08, Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor at systemstheory.net> wrote:

> From: Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor at systemstheory.net>
> Subject: Problem mounting a USB flashdrive on Intrepid
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2008, 12:33 PM
> It mounts and is both read/writeable on my computer
> (Intrepid). But
> not on the new Intrepid box I just put together last week
> for my wife.
> The device shows up/disappears when I plug it in/remove it.
> But when
> accessed her user is told:
> 
> Cannot mount volume
> You are not privileged to mount this volume
> 
> And then about 30 seconds later she gets:
> 
> Unable to mount 2.0 GB media
> Dbus error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply.
> Did not receive a replay. Possible causes include: the
> remote
> application did not send a reply, the message bus security
> policy
> blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the
> network
> connection was broken.
> 
> The device in question is an Emprex 2.0 GB. sfdisk -l
> reports that it
> is a FAT16 file system.
> 
> This is probably glaringly obvious, but I'm drawing a
> complete blank
> right now. Point me to the sky, please.
> 
Your message suggest your wife's user name needs to be added to the disk group or some other appropriate group. I may be wrong as I'm not expert but that's where I'd look first.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net