[arch-general] Mounting drives via nautilus stopped working after update.

[Myra Nelson]

On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 14:10, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 13:47:12 -0600
> Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 12:58, Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > >> I'm experiencing the same problem and I use openbox, obdevicemenu,
> > >> udisks, udiskie, and log in on tty0 then type startx. I plugged in a
> usb
> > >> drive, couldn't mount it, then went to tty0 and found this error
> message:
> > >>
> > >> [ failed to mount /org/freedesktop/UDisks/dev/sdc1
> > >> org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Permission.Denied Not Authorized ]
> > >>
> > >> There is also an error message on tty0 from thunar-volman which is
> > >> exactly the same. I went through all the logs and can't find any
> mention of
> > >> it anywhere. One of the things I haven't yet learned to do is capture
> the
> > >> output on tty0 to another terminal so I have to go back and forth
> > >> occassionally to find these things. Hope I got the wording right.
> Seems
> > >> like it's an error associated with the latest udev update.
> > >>
> > >> Myra
> > >>
> > >> --
> > >> Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > Meaculpa. It's a permission error but its with Udisks.
> > >
> > > su
> > > password
> > > udisks --mount /dev/xxxx /media/xxxx
> > >
> > > works fine.
> > >
> > > I have the requisite
> > >
> > >  udiskie requires permission for the
> > > org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount action. This is usually granted
> > > in sessions launched with
> > > ConsoleKit<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit>support.
> If
> > > run outside a desktop manager with
> > > ConsoleKit<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit>
> support,
> > > the permission can be granted using
> > > PolicyKit<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PolicyKit> by
> creating a
> > > file called 10-udiskie.pkla in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d
> with
> > > these contents:
> > >
> > > [udiskie]
> > > Identity=unix-group:storage
> > > Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount
> > > ResultAny=yes
> > >
> > > This configuration allows all members of the storage group to run
> udiskie.
> > > I've tried the .pkla file as above and with two additional lines
> > >
> > > ResultInactive=no
> > > ResultActive=yes
> > >
> > > Seems as though it may be a permissions issue that's handled within a
> > > desktop environment. I'm unable to check that without installing a
> desktop
> > > environment. Time to readup on consolekit and polkit.
> > >
> > > Myra
> > > --
> > > Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!
> > >
> >
> > The dangerous way
> >
> > place a file in /etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf
> >
> > 99-whatever-you-want-to-call-it.conf
> > [Configuration]
> > priority=1000
> >
> > sudo /usrlib/polkit-1/polkitd restart , then I restarted openbox. This
> > disables policykit. I got the idea from the following mailing list
> >
> >
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-commit/2009-February/004854.html
> .
> > The name suggested for the files was 99-i-hate-policykit-conf
> >
> > At least it solves the problem for now.
> >
> > Myra
>
> None of your emails make sense to me. You should check whether your dbus is
> running and you are connected to it (ck-list-sessions, ps -e u | grep dbus,
> your .xinitrc). You don't need udiskie, pkla files, storage group, gvfs or
> thunar-volman. Plain udisks from terminal should work if your ck-session
> is set
> up correctly.
>
> --
> Leonid Isaev
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>

Leonid:

The solution is on the wiki (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinitrc), I read it the other
night, I didn't read far enough, and I applied the
fix backwards because I didn't read the xfce manually page. It has to do
with  https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/25031, for which you have a comment.
I crafted my .xinitrc file like this

[  numlockx &
   autocutsel -fork &
   autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &

   # Source scripts in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
   if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
     for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
         [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
     done
     unset f
   fi
   exec openbox-session ]

Instead of like this:

[ numlockx &
  autocutsel -fork &
  autocutsel -selection PRIMARY -fork &

  # Source scripts in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/
  #if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  #    for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
  #        [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  #    done
  #    unset f
  #fi
  exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session ]

The first way udisks also fails for a normal user on the console. The
second way everything works right.  My bad. Meaculpa. Sorry for the noise.

before change

[myra at gandalf /media]:/usr/bin/ck-list-sessions | ps -e u | grep xinitrc
myra      3680  0.0  0.0  15732   836 tty1     S+   11:49   0:00 xinit
/home/myra/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth
/tmp/serverauth.RnDioa9aqT

after change
[myra at gandalf ~]:/usr/bin/ck-list-sessions | ps -e u | grep xinitrc
myra      1866  0.0  0.0  15732   832 tty1     S+   16:24   0:00 xinit
/home/myra/.xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xserverrc :0 -auth
/tmp/serverauth.ijpyBJwqre

Myra
-- 
Life's fun when your sick and psychotic!