[Mageia-discuss] [Ticket #13] auto mount usb sticks[resolved]

Tue Jun 28 13:58:27 CEST 2011

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+On Jun 28, 2011 @ 02:56 pm, c.devise at wanadoo.fr wrote:
+Le 28/06/2011 09:59, claude devise a écrit :
+> Le 28/06/2011 00:30, Eugeni Dodonov a écrit :
+>> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 18:25, Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com 
+>> <mailto:ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>> wrote:
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+>>     On 10 June 2011 13:32, claude devise <c.devise at wanadoo.fr
+>>     <mailto:c.devise at wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
+>>     > I've successfully installed Mageia over a Mandriva2010.2 (LXDE)
+>>     > all is fine except usb removable sticks mounting (and usb
+>>     larger disks too,
+>>     > i think):
+>>     > i get an 'Not Authorized' error when i insert my usb sticks
+>>     (all of them).
+>>     > device is created (i.e., /dev.sdx), but i have to mount it
+>>     manually as root.
+>>     > this is not user friendly.
+>>     >
+>>     > if think udev or polkit is faulty.
+>>     >
+>>     > any hints on that ?
+>>     >
+>>     > c.devise
+>>     >
+>>     >
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+>>     - Do these device have entries in /etc/fstab? (Ideally they
+>>     shouldn't).
+>>     - Is there a polkit authentication agent running? the output of 'ps
+>>     aux | grep polkit' should tell
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+>>
+>> It looks painfully similar to 
+>> https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60627 as well, which seems to 
+>> resurrect sometimes randomly on both Mandriva and Mageia :(.
+>>
+I answer myself :
+I applied https://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=60627 workaround :
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+"/Eventually I've found a workaround:
+add a file /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/mount.pkla with:/
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+/[Workaround for bug]
+Identity=unix-user:eric
+Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount
+ResultAny=yes
+ResultInactive=no/
+/ResultActive=yes"
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+/It seems polkit ans polkit1 are a bit fuzzy.../
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+/thanks to you, i was not able to find this feature  ;-)/
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+c.devise
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