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i42n

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Registered: 2012-02-28

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KDE mount USB device fails

Hi,

I am running KDE and having problems mounting USB devices via the KDE Device Notifier in the task bar. When I insert the USB stick there is the normal little popup giving me the option to open the flash drive in dolphin. When I click it, I get the following error:

"Could not mount the following device"

Mounting the device via terminal works fine. I also put my user into the "storage" group like the wiki tells me. Still no change.

Any ideas?

toad

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Registered: 2008-12-22

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

I also put my user into the "storage" group like the wiki tells me.

Have you logged out and back in?

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i42n

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Registered: 2012-02-28

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

I also put my user into the "storage" group like the wiki tells me.

Have you logged out and back in?

I even did a reboot. Does not help.

Last edited by i42n (2012-02-28 13:16:54)

cylverbak

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Registered: 2010-11-04

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

Do you have a /media folder? Mine got deleted somehow a few days ago. Same symptoms. Restoring it was a nice quick fix.

i42n

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Registered: 2012-02-28

Posts: 22

Re: KDE mount USB device fails

Do you have a /media folder? Mine got deleted somehow a few days ago. Same symptoms. Restoring it was a nice quick fix.

Yes I have a /media folder. Mounting in terminal to /media/usb works fine. Only the KDE menu seems to have problems.

i42n

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Registered: 2012-02-28

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

I just tried to mount the USB stick directly via dolphin (so not in the kde taskbar popup). This produces a better error message. Maybe this helps:

 An error occurred while accessing 'Removable Media', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred.: Not Authorized

That would point to the access rights problem according to the storage group. Do not know what to do any further.

Smarthound

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Registered: 2012-03-29

Posts: 23

Re: KDE mount USB device fails

You might be interested in this thread. I have a feeling your answer lies within.

1LordAnubis

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Registered: 2008-10-10

Posts: 253

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

Same problem here, and I've edited usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy, and I've changed it to <allow_active>yes</allow_active>under the filesystem internal mount and eject. Yet dolphin continues to pop up this message when I use my usual openbox + slim. my .xinitrc has ck-launch-session openbox-session, and if I simply run startx without running slim at all, I don't have this problem.... dolphin mounts normally
So, since slim was just updated, it appears to be the problem...; I haven't tried replacing it with the .pacnew file, but it looks the same as the slim.conf . Think I might just use startx for now on though...

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DSpider

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Registered: 2009-08-23

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Op … d-alone_WM

If you also use PolicyKit and D-Bus (e.g. for automatically mounting drives in Nautilus/GNOME) use:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session

Note: dbus-launch must be placed after ck-launch-session or you will experience mounting problems.

Is this how your ~/.xinitrc looks like?

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willtriv

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Registered: 2009-04-18

Posts: 7

Re: KDE mount USB device fails

Note: slim is ConsoleKit capable since version 1.3.3. Unless you happen to run an old version, you must no longer include ck-launch-session in your .xinitrc or slim.conf login_cmd.

These kind of changes without notifications to users cause headaches. Someone was kind enough to update the wiki!

Smarthound

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Registered: 2012-03-29

Posts: 23

Re: KDE mount USB device fails

Note: slim is ConsoleKit capable since version 1.3.3. Unless you happen to run an old version, you must no longer include ck-launch-session in your .xinitrc or slim.conf login_cmd.

I've been running 1.3.3 as "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session" with no problems...

crobe2

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Registered: 2011-08-09

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Re: KDE mount USB device fails

Note: slim is ConsoleKit capable since version 1.3.3. Unless you happen to run an old version, you must no longer include ck-launch-session in your .xinitrc or slim.conf login_cmd.

These kind of changes without notifications to users cause headaches. Someone was kind enough to update the wiki!

You are my personal hero for today, I was suffering the same problem. Manifests itself as 2 CK sessions listed by ck-launch-session, with the wrong session being marked as active.

Last edited by crobe2 (2012-06-11 14:28:12)