gnome-volume-manager not working

[Lee Revell]

On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 15:08 -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> 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).

(sorry, I should have mentioned that I solved this)

This was exactly the problem.  The system was originally running Debian
and was upgraded to Hoary then Breezy and Dapper.  So I guess it's not a
bug.

A better error message would be a nice improvement.

Lee