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foggybrain

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 86

Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

I have a second pata harddive installed which contains windows xp (ntfs) and a fat32 partition.

After upgrading nautilus and it's dependancy upgrades I get this error from nautilus now,

Unable to mount "storage"
Authentication is required

(storage is the name of the fat32 partition)

I get simular for the NTFS partition

I have re-added my username to storage group

I have no entry for drive/partitions in fstab, HAL/UDEV was happy doing it before

????????????

Thank god for partimage backups

Last edited by foggybrain (2009-11-01 23:57:37)

isaie

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From: Brussels, Belgium

Registered: 2009-03-07

Posts: 2

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

i have the same exact problem, i'm in the group storage as well, and no entry for the windows drive in fstab.

pretty much a *bump*

can't figure it out

an entry in fstab obviously solves it, but that's not the point

also, pcmanfm appears to mount it with no problem

foggybrain

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 86

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

I've spent hours now trying to tweak /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf with no effect, looks like this now:-

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<config version="0.1">

       <match user="tim">
               <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
                       <return result="yes"/>
               </match>
               <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
                       <return result="yes" />
               </match>
               <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
                       <return result="yes" />
               </match>
       </match>

    <match user="tim">
        <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.shutdown">
            <return result="yes"/>
        </match>
        <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.power-management.reboot">
            <return result="yes"/>
        </match>
    </match>

</config>

I'm lost with things to try now

"HAL" has started singing "Daisy Daisy"

BTW > mounting the partitions in fstab just takes me back to another problem >>> no recycle bin feature

Last edited by foggybrain (2009-10-28 21:44:55)

Obsolete Disks

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Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 18

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

I make the terrible error of running update today, too.  I guess I won't be writing any code now that I can't get to it.  Don't make me go back to Ubuntu, guys.

Side note, anyone using Epiphany?  I rolled back to 2.26 because 2.28 is a nightmare!  Combo boxes stretching across the screen vertically, field boxes not rendering correctly, it's a joke.

foggybrain

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 86

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

I'm am running XFCE4 and using Nautilus for the desktop and file manager, I'm now wondering if Nautilus has become even more dependant on a full gnome installation.

I shall try a fresh install of Arch with XFCE+Nautilus tomorrow, and if that doesn't work I'll try switching to Arch with Gnome install, even though I hate the gnome-panel. Sometimes these updates don't take into consideration all the patches we had to apply to get the last versions working.

I shall not be beaten !

Last edited by foggybrain (2009-10-29 02:32:28)

jskier

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From: Minnesota, USA

Registered: 2003-07-30

Posts: 383

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Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

The latest Gnome (2.28) isn't working well with mounting external storage devices period right now. Might want to hold off on a fresh install to save time... Just search "gnome usb" on the forums for more details.

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JSkier

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Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 18

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

Perhaps I will change over to LXDE.  Is it really a Gnome problem or something in PolicyKit?  I remember the last time that removable storage broke, I had to create a PolicyKit file.

foggybrain

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 86

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

Removable USB drives are working fine for me, it's my secondary internal pata drive that wont mount as user.

Why do these upgrades get put in the main repositories without being properly tested, or are us Archers just being used as guinea pigs ?

If testers are needed then ask us, don't force it on us !

Last edited by foggybrain (2009-10-30 00:39:55)

Obsolete Disks

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Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 18

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

I'm the other way around. I 'fixed' my installed drives with fstab, but weird things happen if I add or remove USB storage, likely because the meaning of dev/sd?1 changes.

foggybrain

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Registered: 2008-07-29

Posts: 86

Re: Can't mount internal pata drive after nautilus etc upgrades

Update

After following all the suggestions in the Arch HAL wiki and "how I won the struggle.." http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65070
I still have no auth access to internal drives via nautilus on xfce4 user session, but....
I do have access via nautilus on gnome user session after providing my root password when prompted.

This leads me to the conclusion that XFCE4 can no longer be used succesfully with Nautilus as the filemanager.