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dezire

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 45

[SOLVED] NTFS drives not opening

I have just freshly installed both windows 10 and arch. The problem I am getting is that the NTFS drives are no longer opening. Before hand i used Windows 10 and arch with KDE and it worked... now using xmonad via xinit

I have

ntfs-3g installed
polkit installed
thunar installed

When i launch thunar with sudo i can't even see the partitions

But when I manually mount it to a point on the /mnt it works i get RW permission also.
Please help me out.
Thanks and sorry in advance.

Last edited by dezire (2021-02-21 10:11:14)

loqs

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Registered: 2014-03-06

Posts: 19,022

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS drives not opening

Is gvfs installed?

pacman -Si thunar
Repository      : extra
Name            : thunar
Version         : 4.16.3-1
Description     : Modern file manager for Xfce
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start
Licenses        : GPL2  LGPL2.1
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : None
Depends On      : desktop-file-utils  libexif  hicolor-icon-theme  libnotify  libgudev  exo  libxfce4util  libxfce4ui  libpng
Optional Deps   : gvfs: trash support, mounting with udisk and remote filesystems
                  tumbler: thumbnail previews
                  thunar-volman: removable device management
                  thunar-archive-plugin: archive creation and extraction
                  thunar-media-tags-plugin: view/edit ID3/OGG tags
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 1277.19 KiB
Installed Size  : 6475.61 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Tue 09 Feb 2021 13:22:02 GMT
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Last edited by loqs (2021-02-20 08:55:43)

dezire

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS drives not opening

Is gvfs installed?

pacman -Si thunar
Repository      : extra
Name            : thunar
Version         : 4.16.3-1
Description     : Modern file manager for Xfce
Architecture    : x86_64
URL             : https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/thunar/start
Licenses        : GPL2  LGPL2.1
Groups          : xfce4
Provides        : None
Depends On      : desktop-file-utils  libexif  hicolor-icon-theme  libnotify  libgudev  exo  libxfce4util  libxfce4ui  libpng
Optional Deps   : gvfs: trash support, mounting with udisk and remote filesystems
                  tumbler: thumbnail previews
                  thunar-volman: removable device management
                  thunar-archive-plugin: archive creation and extraction
                  thunar-media-tags-plugin: view/edit ID3/OGG tags
Conflicts With  : None
Replaces        : None
Download Size   : 1277.19 KiB
Installed Size  : 6475.61 KiB
Packager        : Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@archlinux.org>
Build Date      : Tue 09 Feb 2021 13:22:02 GMT
Validated By    : MD5 Sum  SHA-256 Sum  Signature

Yep installed but i don't know if i have to configure it or not... i have tried both nautilus and dolphin

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 25,346

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS drives not opening

What does your xinitrc look like? If you don't carry over the template from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc you are going to have a broken session that might lead to incorrect communication between gvfs and dbus and udisk.

dezire

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS drives not opening

What does your xinitrc look like? If you don't carry over the template from https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#xinitrc you are going to have a broken session that might lead to incorrect communication between gvfs and dbus and udisk.

Here is my xinit file

!/bin/sh

userresources=$HOME/.Xresources
usermodmap=$HOME/.Xmodmap
sysresources=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xresources
sysmodmap=/etc/X11/xinit/.Xmodmap

# merge in defaults and keymaps

if [ -f $sysresources ]; then







    xrdb -merge $sysresources

fi

if [ -f $sysmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap $sysmodmap
fi

if [ -f "$userresources" ]; then







    xrdb -merge "$userresources"

fi

if [ -f "$usermodmap" ]; then
    xmodmap "$usermodmap"
fi

# start some nice programs

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


xbindkeys
nitrogen --restore &
picom &
exec xmonad

dezire

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Registered: 2020-09-30

Posts: 45

Re: [SOLVED] NTFS drives not opening

Thanks to you all but the problem was in my fstab

 /dev/sdXX               /home/username/drivename          ntfs-3g          defaults                0 0