[Solved] Kde plasma asking for sudo pass when mounting external drive.

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 07:47:28

Hello !
> I am having a rather annoying issue right now.
> Fresh arch installation with kde plasma.
> I have a 1 TB external protable hdd, encrypted via luks2. Hdd contains only one partition. Whenever I plugin the hdd via usb, I get the prompt to enter the luks password as expected, but then after entering the luks password, kde also asks for the sudo password to mount the drive. If I cancel the sudo password entering attempt, the drive still mounts at /run/media/myusername and I can access it properly. This never happened to me before. This happens on any user account, with or without sudo priviledges.
> What can I do to fix this ?

P.S: I am new to archlinux, please let me know if I said anything wrong or something is missing. Thank you

Last edited by archmonger78 (2022-03-18 17:30:20)

seth · 2022-03-18 08:46:13

This is going to be the same issue as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274961 which is a broken logind session or misdirected session bus

loginctl session-status
echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 08:55:30

seth wrote:

This is going to be the same issue as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274961 which is a broken logind session or misdirected session bus
loginctl session-status
echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

Okay, so both of these problems are related to a broken logind session or misdirected session bus. But How exactly do I fix this ? Rebooting does not help. I didn't do anything out of the odinary with my installation, it is a basic install with the default kde-plasma-meta package, so why did this happen ? For now, I will just try to search for solutions on the web. If you know how to go around fixing it, then please let me know. Thank you !

>> loginctl session-status

2 - turing (1000)
	   Since: Fri 2022-03-18 13:55:14 IST; 31min ago
	  Leader: 1031 (sddm-helper)
	    Seat: seat0; vc1
	 Display: :0
	 Service: sddm; type x11; class user
	 Desktop: KDE
	   State: active
	    Unit: session-2.scope
		  |-1031 /usr/lib/sddm/sddm-helper --socket /tmp/sddm-auth5d6a9b03-8f09-4e6b-a844-b200075b39ad --id 1 --start /usr/bin/startplasma-x11 --user turing
		  |-1044 /usr/bin/kwalletd5 --pam-login 6 8
		  |-1045 /usr/bin/startplasma-x11
		  |-1062 /usr/bin/plasma_session
		  |-1074 /usr/bin/kded5
		  |-1077 /usr/bin/kwin_x11
		  |-1095 /usr/bin/ksmserver
		  |-1117 /usr/lib/org_kde_powerdevil
		  |-1121 /usr/lib/baloo_file
		  |-1122 /usr/lib/polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1
		  |-1123 /usr/bin/xembedsniproxy
		  |-1124 /usr/bin/plasmashell
		  |-1127 /usr/bin/kaccess
		  |-1142 /usr/lib/DiscoverNotifier
		  |-1151 /usr/bin/gmenudbusmenuproxy
		  |-1642 /usr/lib/kf5/kioslave5 /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/kio_file.so file "" local:/run/user/1000/kded5oaiQOj.3.slave-socket
		  `-1644 /usr/lib/kf5/kioslave5 /usr/lib/qt/plugins/kf5/kio/kio_file.so file "" local:/run/user/1000/kded5bYzSSQ.4.slave-socket

Mar 18 14:18:33 arc plasmashell[1124]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_sink.B4_9A_95_53_B8_16.a2dp_sink.monitor"
Mar 18 14:19:48 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 43072, resource id: 8410677, major code: 3 (GetWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
Mar 18 14:19:48 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 43073, resource id: 8410677, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Mar 18 14:20:47 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 11312, resource id: 8415384, major code: 3 (GetWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
Mar 18 14:20:47 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 11313, resource id: 8415384, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Mar 18 14:20:49 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 13092, resource id: 50331653, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Mar 18 14:20:49 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 13122, resource id: 33554581, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Mar 18 14:20:49 arc plasmashell[1124]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:366: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
Mar 18 14:20:56 arc plasmashell[1124]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.taskmanager/contents/ui/Task.qml:366: Unable to assign [undefined] to QString
Mar 18 14:24:00 arc kwin_x11[1077]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 22925, resource id: 58720264, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

>> echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus

Last edited by archmonger78 (2022-03-18 08:59:10)

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 15:55:24

seth wrote:

This is going to be the same issue as https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274961 which is a broken logind session or misdirected session bus
loginctl session-status
echo $DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

I am not able to find a solution anywhere. If you know how to figure this out, then I'd really appreciate it if you help me out here

seth · 2022-03-18 16:29:51

Please don't bump.

The session and session bus are fine, do you have flatpak installed?

pacman -Qs portal

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 17:14:25

seth wrote:

Please don't bump.
The session and session bus are fine, do you have flatpak installed?
pacman -Qs portal

Nope, I don't use flatapk. And sorry no more bumping.
pacman -Qs portal gives >>
local/xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.24.3-1 (plasma)
A backend implementation for xdg-desktop-portal using Qt/KF5

Also, only that specific external drive has this problem, other external drives and usb devices don't have this same problem. I will just wipefs -a that drive and hopefully it will fix it.

Last edited by archmonger78 (2022-03-18 17:19:28)

seth · 2022-03-18 17:16:28

You do have the portal package installed though, which has a track record of throwing off dbus…
=> remove that. Log out and back in. See what happens.

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 17:21:01

seth wrote:

You do have the portal package installed though, which has a track record of throwing off dbus…
=> remove that. Log out and back in. See what happens.

only that specific external drive has this problem, other external drives and usb devices don't have this same problem. I will just wipefs -a that drive and hopefully it will fix it.
EDIT: okay I will try that

Last edited by archmonger78 (2022-03-18 17:21:29)

seth · 2022-03-18 17:22:55

You still have https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274961 and I assume this bleeds over to polkit.
If there's a common root and it's not that your session is degraded (as loginctl shows it's not) the most likely contender is flatpak/portal.

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 17:25:01

seth wrote:

You do have the portal package installed though, which has a track record of throwing off dbus…
=> remove that. Log out and back in. See what happens.

Well I erased my drive and now the problem is fixed, I think it was a problem with permissions with that specific drive, since I use that drive in different systems, root and non-root. I am marking this post as solved. Thank you!

archmonger78 · 2022-03-18 17:27:29

seth wrote:

You still have https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=274961 and I assume this bleeds over to polkit.
If there's a common root and it's not that your session is degraded (as loginctl shows it's not) the most likely contender is flatpak/portal.

No I was misunderstanding the problem in that post. The error I was getting there was the default behaviour of DBus. It was not a problem with my system. Also I have fixed the issue.

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