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#1 2018-04-30 17:46:00

Yoda007
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Registered: 2018-02-09
Posts: 6

[Solved] Unable to mount Kindle

I have the following problem:

When i plug in my Kindle I cannot mount it via GUI with my user (I have cinnamon installed). The error message I get is: "Unable to mount Kindle. Not authorized to perform operation".
Funny thing is, this was not a problem a few weeks ago and all I did system-wise was update my packages.


I have tried
1) mounting manually from command line with sudo and it works - so it is some sort of permission issue.
2) i checked the device owner and group and it is

ls -all /dev/disk/by-label/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  10 Apr 30 19:24 Kindle -> ../../sdj1

ls -all /dev/sdj1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 145 Apr 30 19:24 /dev/sdj1

Tried to add my user to the disk group but nothing happens after I run the usermog -a -G disk USERNAME command (group  disk is not listed when listing them using the groups comand).

How could I resolve this issue?

Last edited by Yoda007 (2018-05-11 18:36:00)

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#2 2018-05-11 18:35:01

Yoda007
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Registered: 2018-02-09
Posts: 6

Re: [Solved] Unable to mount Kindle

Finally figured it out. Needed to add a polkit rule to /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/ :

polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
  var YES = polkit.Result.YES;
  // NOTE: there must be a comma at the end of each line except for the last:
  var permission = {
    // required for udisks1:
    "org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks.luks-unlock": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-eject": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-detach": YES,
    // required for udisks2:
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.power-off-drive": YES,
    // required for udisks2 if using udiskie from another seat (e.g. systemd):
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-unmount-others": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.encrypted-unlock-other-seat": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.eject-media-other-seat": YES,
    "org.freedesktop.udisks2.power-off-drive-other-seat": YES
  };
  if (subject.isInGroup("storage")) {
    return permission[action.id];
  }
});

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