The Doors are Open on openSUSE 11.0

People are having various problems with usb drives and CD/DVDs automouting properly. If you made a clean new install or upgraded to OpenSuse 11 makes no difference.

One of the more common problems is that automount works as root but not as a user.

The typical error messagae is:

"org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removeable no <-- (action, result)"

After several days of searching the web (I found nothing useful) and changing configuration files just to see what happens :-) I managed to fix the above problem by doing this:

In the file /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy

In this section:

<action id="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">

Change:

<allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>

To this:

<allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>


Then in a console terminal (logged in as root) execute this command:

rchal restart

to restart hal.

Why this is necessary (or even works) I have no idea.

I hope this saves someone all the time I spent researching the problem.

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The CAPTCHA for registered users (or should we call it GOTCHA since it is so friggin touchy about entries) is a big pain.

1. When the case matters it should be noted in the instructions.
2. There is NO REASON to force the poster to enter a new CAPTCHA everytime they just want to preview or edit what they wrote. To make the actual post is reasonable for a visitor.
3. There is no GOOD reason to force registered users, who are logged in, to use a CAPTCHA. Most sites only use them for visitors—not registered users.
4. This GOTCHA irritation will likely reduce the number of post and responses on the site. I know it will make me think twice before I post again.