Install Gnome Volume Manager

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The gnome-volume-manager will automatically mountremovable devices as they are connected. It is run as part of thedefault Debian session, but will also be started, if needed, if youenter the Removable Drives and Media application under Desktop,Preferences menu. Otherwise it will need to be run in your session(add gnome-volume-manager toDesktop Preferences Sessions). The users needto be in group plugdev.Note that this works best when you run a single X-session at a time(which is the common scenario). If you have two or more users withconcurrent X-sessions on different tty's the permissions become anissue. In this situation it is perhaps best to use the Disk Mounterapplets to do the mounting.If you prefer to give gnome-volume-manager a try in thesituation with concurrent users with different X sessions on the oneconsole, and for trusted users (those in plugdev), you coulduse the following /etc/fstab entry:/dev/usbkey /media/usbkey auto users,gid=plugdev,umask=0002,defaultsThe main points here are the use of users to allow any userto unmount the device, and when mounting the device the gid(group ID) is set to plugdev. The umask then allowsgroup access but not others.The pmount command is the basis ofgnome-volume-manager and is hard coded in thegnome-volume-manager:$ strings /usr/bin/gnome-volume-manager grep pmount/usr/bin/pmount-hal%hAlso pmount's policy is hard-coded and so alsohas limited configurability.

Part of pmount's policy is that you needto be able to run pmount in order to mount a device, and so you needto be in the plugdev group to mount a device. An entry in/etc/fstab overrides pmount's policy.In order to be able to umount a device, the device needs to have beenmounted by the user. This is enforced by checking /etc/mtaband parsing the mount options looking for.

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Needs to bethe uid of the user trying to unmount the device. The policy is thatif you can run pmount and fulfill certain criteria, you can mount adevice.

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And pumount's policy is that if you are the user who mountedthe device and fulfill certain criteria, you can unmount the device.But if you have two gnome-volume-manager's running, bothwill get messages from HAL which means that they will race formounting the device. Ideally one of them should go to sleep!

Install Gnome Volume Manager

Hello.I try to install GNOME Desktop Environmentwith that commandyum groupupdate 'GNOME Desktop Environment'I Got that errors!gnome-volume-manager-2.15.0-5.el5.i386 from base has depsolving problems- Missing Dependency: kernel = 2.6 is needed by package gnome-volume-manage r-2.15.0-5.el5.i386 (base)Error: Missing Dependency: kernel = 2.6 is needed by package gnome-volume-manag er-2.15.0-5.el5.i386 (base)You could try using -skip-broken to work around the problemYou could try running: package-cleanup -problemspackage-cleanup -dupesrpm -Va -nofiles -nodigest.