"Not authorized to perform operation."

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

I'm getting the following error when trying to mount my USB camera in Thunar:

"Not authorized to perform operation."

It was working fine until I updated and rebooted this morning. Any ideas?

xaviermiller · Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 4:18 pm Post subject:

Hello,

Is your user in the plugdev group?
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Xavier Miller

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Yes plugdev but not usb. Could that be it? The system is remote so not so easy to test.

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

Usually, this kind of error is acl related from either consolekit or systemd.

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

I'm not using systemd (unless it's used by default) and I haven't configured consolekit at all.

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

Could this be because I updated udisks?

berg · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2004 Posts: 37

This issue is related to Bug 501330 and can be fixed with an update to glib-2.38.2-r1.

grant123 · Veteran Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 1080

That's great news. I'll try it now. Thank you!