F17: Connection of a Kindle Fire HD

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2012-10-29 at 09:12 -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 18:52:35 -0430
> Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > For a moment there I thought this could be the solution for connecting
> > my Galaxy Nexus phone (given that it can also work as an ereader), but
> > it was not to be:
> > 
> > OpenFailed: Failed to open MTPDevice(busnum=1, devnum=12,
> > vendor_id=1256, product_id=26716, bcd=534,
> > serial=u'01498A4C09018014', manufacturer=u'samsung', product=u'Galaxy
> > Nexus'): Error: Unable to open raw device.
> > 
> > Too bad.
> 
> Sounds like a ConsoleKit/systemd-logind permissions issue. 
> 
> How are you logging in and what desktop env are you using?

I'm logging in under my normal user account. My desktop is KDE.

Using the same hardware, same user, same DE, I can mount the phone using
mtpfs, which works more often than not (but sometimes doesn't and then
does after retrying). So it wouldn't seem to be a permissions issue.

poc