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I'm in category one. I don't use Xfce, I use Xmonad. I didn't touch any pkla files, I didn't change my configuration, the only thing I did was doing my regular updates. I used to be able to mount external drives and I'm no longer able to do so.
In another thread someone said I should follow this guide: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … ormal_user. Now you say I should not touch pkla files.
Can someone please tell me why mounting works after I quit and restart ("startx") Xmonad (and the X server) but does not work after a reboot. I'm not using any login manager, my .xinitrc ends with:
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@ Leonid.I
1) Regarding external drives (and optical media, i.e. cd's and dvd's) I could not access them around the time I filed the bug report, but an update shortly thereafter fixed this issue. I am not sure which update it was (thunar, udev, or something else), but I later found I could access external media without any udisks.pkla file or polkit-gnome installed. So this is no longer an issue (for me).
2) Regarding partitions on the same hard drive as arch (both Linux and Windows partitions), as a normal user I could not access any of them except the arch partition until I installed polkit-gnome (or else used a udisks.pkla file). I was not even given the option to enter a password without using one of these two options. It is a problem if I can't access my drives (of any type), and am not given a prompt for a password. Fortunately that is not the case anymore.
I do not really want automount for my other partitions, but I would like to be able to access them when needed without too much of a headache. The way it is now (with polkit-gnome installed) is fine for me. If I try to access one of those partitions, I am prompted for root's password. The advantage I see is that others cannot so easily scan more private data that I have on some of those other partitions. I don't need Ft. Knox, but I don't want an open door either. My Mageia KDE OS works just like that for the Linux partitions, but automounts the Windows partitions.
I think I see what you are referring to here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PolicyKit as an alternative to polkit-gnome or even udisks.pkla. Regarding fstab, I've used that method before in Mandriva. These appear to me as other roads to the same castle.
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Some have stated that I have a misconfigured system. It's hard for me to see how when it's all working now (log out, restart, shutdown, suspend, hibernate, and disk access) with no user created .pkla files. I think some believe if you use slim (with Xfce), it must be a misconfigured system. I'm not so sure. Anyway, listed are (4) gnome packages that are needed for xfce, but adding a 5th gnome package becomes a workaround? Already it seems a mix-n-match.
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There definitely seems to be some confusion and uncertainty regarding all these misconfigured systems that are being reported. In my case, I tried every possible configuration that I could find in the wiki and even some that were not in the wiki, but in the end still had to either add a .pkla file or install polkit-gnome before I could mount the extra storage drive on my Xfce4 box. The installation of polkit-gnome currently seems to be the easiest fix.
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@wonder: Could you please tell me what to do?
Automount used to work yesterday and stopped to work today. No idea why. I didn't restart the computer, I only suspended to RAM. And I still didn't change anything on my configuration that used to work for the past months.
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Note that thunar 1.2.3-3 was just released and it's now showing polkit-gnome as a new optional dependency.
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