[SOLVED] XFCE4 Can't mount the drives Authorization is required

donniezazen · 2012-03-17 06:39:57

Hello,

I did a clean Arch Linux install with XFCE4. I am unable to mount windows share in Thunar. I either get Authorization is Required or Not Authorized. I have gvfs and ntfs-3g installed. I use slim as DM. I have dbus installed and dbus and hal in rc.conf. This seems to be a common problem and I have tried a few things but can't pin point the problem.

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

# exec gnome-session
# exec startkde
# exec startxfce4
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4

Thanks.

Last edited by donniezazen (2012-03-19 07:32:24)

Cory_j · 2012-03-17 07:34:35

do you have the consolekit? installed?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PolicyKit

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ConsoleKit

Gcool · 2012-03-17 09:54:13

Is your user added to the "storage" group?

PS: HAL has been deprecated for a while, you shouldn't be using it anymore.

donniezazen · 2012-03-17 16:52:11

@Cory_J Yes, I have consolekit installed. I am not sure about policykit. I have never installed these manually before.

@Gcool I am added to group storage. Ok I will remove HAL daemon from my rc.conf.

As wiki says, I have stripped down my ~/.xinitrc to exec startxfce4 and edited slim as follows. But I still can't mount drives.

# This command is executed after a succesful login.
# you can place the %session and %theme variables
# to handle launching of specific commands in .xinitrc
# depending of chosen session and slim theme
#
# NOTE: if your system does not have bash you need
# to adjust the command according to your preferred shell,
# i.e. for freebsd use:
# login_cmd           exec /bin/sh - ~/.xinitrc %session
login_cmd           exec ck-launch-session /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session

full slim.conf http://pastebin.com/z1aeCrgq

Thank you.

dodo3773 · 2012-03-17 19:10:25

I run hal and have not run into any problems (despite it being depreciated some older apps need it I have found). My daemons array:

syslog-ng dbus hal cpufreq pdnsd networkmanager alsa gopreload

Have you tried adding dbus and launching that way?
Snip from my .xinitrc

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4

Edit: Also, if you are using thunar you may want to look into these 2 packages:

extra/udisks
extra/thunar-volman

For some reason I remember needing them.

Last edited by dodo3773 (2012-03-17 19:16:54)

donniezazen · 2012-03-17 20:21:04

@dodo3773
I removed ck-launch-session from login_cmd (reverted to default).
I kept dbus and hal in rc.conf
I changed my ~/.xinitrc to what you have (exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4).
I installed udisks and thunar-volman.

Still no luck. Instead of authorization not found. I am getting not authorized.

Thanks for replying.

dodo3773 · 2012-03-17 21:22:53

Other than that I am not sure. May be a policy kit issue though. You could test changing no to yes globally in this file and rebooting for a quick test:

/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy

Here are the ntfs programs I have installed for reference if it helps at all:

yaourt -Ss ntfs | grep installed

extra/ntfs-3g 2012.1.15-1 [installed]
extra/ntfsprogs 2012.1.15-1 [installed]
aur/libntfs-dev 2.0.0-1 [installed] (18)

donniezazen · 2012-03-17 21:41:00

@dodo3773 Do you mean changing all 'no' to 'yes'?

dodo3773 · 2012-03-17 21:46:08

donniezazen wrote:

@dodo3773 Do you mean changing all 'no' to 'yes'?

Yeah that's what I mean. Not sure if it will work. Although if it doesn't you can just change them all back. I think the default layout is:

<allow_any>no</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

change it to

<allow_any>yes</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>yes</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

donniezazen · 2012-03-17 23:25:40

@dodo 3773 It did nothing. Thanks.

My current situation.

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng dbus hal crond @alsa @ntpd @sshd @tlp @thinkfan @wicd slim)

MODULES=(coretemp thinkpad_acpi tp_smapi fuse autofs4)

login_cmd           exec /bin/bash -login ~/.xinitrc %session

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4

Package installed

extra/ntfs-3g 2012.1.15-1 [installed]
extra/ntfsprogs 2012.1.15-1 [installed]
aur/libntfs-dev 2.0.0-1 [installed] (18)
extra/gvfs 1.10.1-3 [installed]
extra/gvfs-afc 1.10.1-3 [installed]
extra/gvfs-gphoto2 1.10.1-3 [installed]
extra/gvfs-smb 1.10.1-3 [installed]
extra/fuse 2.8.7-1 [installed]
community/autofs 5.0.6-3 [installed]
extra/polkit 0.104-1 [installed]
extra/consolekit 0.4.5-2 [installed]
extra/udisks 1.0.4-2 [installed]
extra/thunar-volman 0.6.0-3 (xfce4-goodies) [installed]

I have reverted back to original polkit.

Thanks.

Last edited by donniezazen (2012-03-17 23:28:17)

dodo3773 · 2012-03-17 23:53:38

Well I'm out of ideas. If you can mount it from the command line maybe you could write an entry for it in /etc/fstab or automount it somehow at boot if that's what you want. Good luck. Please post back fix when you figure it out. I am interested in finding out what it is.

donniezazen · 2012-03-17 23:59:51

Thanks for all your help. I am able to mount the windows share without any problem through command line. Will definitively let know if I find a solution.

655321 · 2012-03-18 04:37:37

dont know what can be happening but this is just an idea, maybe slim is at fault here, disable it temporarily (put a ! before it on rc.conf) and when you get to the tty login login and the do a normal xinit, that way if it works you know its slim fault. Hope it helps you

donniezazen · 2012-03-18 06:12:28

655321 wrote:

dont know what can be happening but this is just an idea, maybe slim is at fault here, disable it temporarily (put a ! before it on rc.conf) and when you get to the tty login login and the do a normal xinit, that way if it works you know its slim fault. Hope it helps you

I banged slim. Logged and startxfce4 but no luck again. Thanks for the idea.

wonder · 2012-03-18 07:27:10

so many wrong suggestions in this thread.

1) fix your ~/.xinitrc. it should ONLY contain the line exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
2) install polkit-gnome and relogin
3) be sure that /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 runs and if not, run it manually or from whatever xfce has to do it automatically at login,
4) thunar-volman is deprecated, install gvfs

Everything should be fine now.

donniezazen · 2012-03-18 16:12:09

@wonder

1.Changed ~/.xinitrc as you suggested.
2.Installed polkit-gnome.
4.Removed thunar-volman and only running gvfs.
3. Not sure how am I suppose to run /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1. How do I check if it is running? Do I need to run that as a root user on start? Running it as a root user in a terminal gives me following error.

sudo /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
Password: 

(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:996): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session information for process '996'

I am still stuck with 'Not Authorized'.

Thank you.

PS:Your blog is very informative.

Last edited by donniezazen (2012-03-18 16:13:06)

wonder · 2012-03-18 16:17:30

i did not say to start that as root.

to check if is running, do ps x | grep polkit

donniezazen · 2012-03-18 16:20:04

Oh OK!!

ps x | grep polkit
  859 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
 1988 pts/0    S+     0:00 grep polkit

donniezazen · 2012-03-19 07:31:41

I removed Slim and installed LightDM and the problem is solved. I am able to mount my partition. Thanks everyone.

655321 · 2012-03-20 04:45:50

So it was slim's fault? Guess I wasn't so lost after all glad you got it working!

donniezazen · 2012-03-20 05:46:22

@655321 You were pretty close. It though did not work just by banging slim. Thanks anyways.

triton60 · 2012-04-30 09:36:08

wonder wrote:

so many wrong suggestions in this thread.
1) fix your ~/.xinitrc. it should ONLY contain the line exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
2) install polkit-gnome and relogin
3) be sure that /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 runs and if not, run it manually or from whatever xfce has to do it automatically at login,
4) thunar-volman is deprecated, install gvfs
Everything should be fine now.

Just had the same problem and this worked for me, thanks.

xerverius · 2012-05-01 15:51:26

Instead of all the .xinit hackery, you can use "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch" in 4.10. polkit-gnome is not required for Xfce. Thunar-volman is not deprecated, it is a tool that watches udev events, it has absolutely nothing to do with mount authentication issues: it can only trigger automounting (through thunar->gio->gvfs) and spawn apps if special devices are attached.

donniezazen · 2012-05-01 15:59:28

@xerverious startxfce4 --with-ck-launch Does that go in auto start?

If I am not wrong .xinitrc is not read when I login using a display manager like LightDM.

xerverius · 2012-05-01 18:20:25

True, but display manager usually also setup a proper consolekit environment (not slim iirc), but at least lightdm and gdb do. "startxfce4 --with-ck-launch" is only a better option for the startx people.

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