[solved] No mount from KDE Desktop

[orinoco]

Hi,

since last d-u I can't mount external drives from "DeviceNotifier".

seit dem letzten d-u kann ich keine externen Laufwerke mit  der Geräteüberwachung mounten.

"Ein nicht genauer angegebener Fehler ist aufgetreten: Not authorized"

Any ideas/Lösungsvorschläge?

[devil]

What file system?

[orinoco]

The first message I received with a NTFS-Partition. With a FAT32 partition I get

Method FilesystemMount" with signature "sas" on interface "org.freedesktop.UDisks.Device" doesn't exist

Last but not least wth ext4 again "Not authrized"

I crosschecked with a new installed siduction on my notebook and everything seems to be fine. I love it...

[musca]

hello orinoco,

I suspect you may have old mountpoints in the /media directory that have wrong owner + group (root root).
I suggest you remove them.

Before i plug in my USB stick  my /media is empty:

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musca@sidbox:~$ ls -l /media
total 0

After plugging in and selecting open with filemanager there is a mountpoint that belongs to the user musca:

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musca@sidbox:~$ ls -l /media
total 8
drwx------ 7 musca musca 8192 Jan  1  1970 Spaceloop


After removing from "device notifier" /media is clean again:

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musca@sidbox:~$ ls -l /media
total 0

Authorization is done via policykit-1, and the package usbmount is not needed (i removed it recently).
Please check theese packages:

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chilan@sidbox:~$ dpkg -l | grep -e 'policykit-1' -e 'usbmount'
ii  policykit-1  0.105-5  amd64   framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
rc  usbmount     0.0.22     all   automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices

greetings
musca

[orinoco]

Hi,

this weekend I had more time to investigate the problem. The few weeks old siduction installation on my notebook helped me a lot. I compared journald output and came to the conclusion that on my notebook a process called usbmount seems to do the mounting. On my desktop I can't see this. I checked if a package like usbmount is installed. It wasn't. After installing and a reboot I thought I made it. My external device gets mounted. But my two external hdds gets mounted automatically. I looked into /media and found lots of usb mountpoints numbered form 0 to 7 and a symlink from usb to usb0. I removed them and rebooted the computer again. Now I seems that mounting devices from the notifier is working fine again.

[musca]

Hello orinoco,

in my opinion usbmount is not needed and only removing the mountpoints solved it. But I guess we will never know ...
This thread will be marked as [solved] though.

greetings
musca