Mounting partitions

jmak · 2012-04-26 02:02:58

Hello,

After my recent update, I can't access my partitions anymore. Before, the partitions were auto mounted. But I did it so long time ago, that now I forgot how I did it. When I click the partitions, I get the message, 'You are not authorized' . Could anyone who is more familiar with this help me out.
My desktop environment is: Enlightenment
Filemanager:Thunar

Thanks,
jmak

Yurlungur · 2012-04-26 04:28:16

This is probably a problem with your fstab file.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

anonymous_user · 2012-04-26 04:54:56

How are you starting enlightenment? Make sure your ~/.xinitrc reads like:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch enlightenment_start

Also search the forums. There are a TON of threads about Thunar and mounting issues.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2012-04-26 04:55:36)

jmak · 2012-04-26 05:03:16

anonymous_user wrote:

How are you starting enlightenment? Make sure your ~/.xinitrc reads like:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch enlightenment_start
Also search the forums. There are a TON of threads about Thunar and mounting issues.

Yes, /.xinitrc is ok.

I was not clear in my initial post. After update I lost authorization. Mounting is ok. Everything is there, I just don't have the authorization to access the partition.
I searched the forum but found no usable info.

Last edited by jmak (2012-04-26 05:04:49)

Yurlungur · 2012-04-26 05:17:14

If you open a terminal and log in as root, can you access files via terminal? If so, you might want to do an ls -l and see what your computer thinks the permissions are. I had this problem on my Fedora installation a while back, and it turned out to be an fstab problem, which is why I suggested that.

Last edited by Yurlungur (2012-04-26 05:17:47)

jmak · 2012-04-26 13:17:14

In root I can't access my partitions, because they don't appear. However, I made some progress by creating several rules following udev arch wiki. This allows me to access my usb stick, but when I click eject volume I still get the 'Not authorized' message. My partitions are still not accessible.

jmak · 2012-04-26 19:28:57

I've tried to reinstall the earlier version of udev because before update everything was fine. But I get this error message:

[root@myhost mak]# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/udev-181-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
loading packages...
warning: downgrading package udev (182-1 => 181-9)
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): udev-181-9

Total Installed Size:   1.68 MiB
Net Upgrade Size:       0.05 MiB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] y
(1/1) checking package integrity                   [######################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files                        [######################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                  [######################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
udev: /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/udev-acl.ck exists in filesystem
udev: /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-udev-acl.rules exists in filesystem
udev: /usr/lib/udev/udev-acl exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
[root@myhost mak]#

Yurlungur · 2012-04-27 05:03:33

Hmm... your partitions don't appear at all? That's really strange... Did you ever choose a mount point for them before?

To get around pacman's error messages, make backups of the files it says exist (not necessary, but good practice), and then force the downgrade:

# cp /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/udev-acl.ck /usr/lib/ConsoleKit/run-seat.d/udev-acl.ck.backup
# cp /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-udev-acl.rules /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/70-udev-acl.rules/backup
# /usr/lib/udev/udev-acl /usr/lib/udev/udev-acl.backup
# pacman -Uf /var/cache/pacman/pkg/udev-181-9-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

jmak · 2012-04-27 17:25:40

I haven't touched anything. Everything has worked perfectly in the past 2 years. Then I updated a few days ago and I got this authentication problem.
I solved the problem temporarily by hardcoding all my five partitions in fstab. But previously, I haven't had to do this, udisks took care with the mounting.

Last edited by jmak (2012-04-27 17:32:00)

Yurlungur · 2012-04-27 17:49:51

I'm fairly certain the "correct" way to automount partitions is to use fstab. udisks has never detected my partitions... only my external media. Its possible you need separate udisk rules to get automounting in udisk to work... and its also possible that the udisks developers cleaned up the ruleset and thus these rules disappeared in a recent update.

Perhaps test to see if the problem relates to thunar by installing a different file browser and see if it has the same problems.

silverzhao · 2012-05-09 12:58:17

You may try this.

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