xfce4 64bit gives failed to mount not authorized to perform

[delphys]

hello;

Happily running xfce4 64bit and enabled automount for USB devices
but getting "failed to mount not authorized to perform operation" error

have installed thunar-volman & usbmount
did searches but not sure whats causing this ..

Any ideas , Thank you

[pidsley]

Are you able to mount the USB drive manually? Is it formatted as NTFS? Do you have gvfs installed? Need more information.

[wuxmedia]

i get a similar warning browsing network shares.
2nd try and it works..

[delphys]

Are you able to mount the USB drive manually? Is it formatted as NTFS? Do you have gvfs installed? Need more information.

Yes.. able to mount manually with -t ntfs ..and gvfs installed

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/dev/sde1 on /media/usb-disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other,blksize=4096)

ii  gvfs:amd64                               1.16.3-1                      amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - GIO module
ii  gvfs-backends                            1.16.3-1                      amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - backends
ii  gvfs-bin                                 1.16.3-1                      amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - binaries
ii  gvfs-common                              1.16.3-1                      all          userspace virtual filesystem - common data files
ii  gvfs-daemons                             1.16.3-1                      amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - servers
ii  gvfs-libs:amd64                          1.16.3-1                      amd64        userspace virtual filesystem - private libraries

[machinebacon]

There's a transition now from udisks to udisks2, it might be the problem.
Do you run a display manager with it? Usually policykit should handle the mount authorization:

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

Take a look at the entries, usually there should be a bunch of <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

[delphys]

Take a look at the entries, usually there should be a bunch of <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

There are a few auth_admins there.. maybe one of them should be yes ??
Thnx

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 <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-check">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-check-system-internal">
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-unmount-others">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-lsof">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-lsof-system-internal">
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-eject">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-detach">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.change">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.change-system-internal">
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart-refresh">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart-selftest">
      <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart-retrieve-historical-data">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.luks-unlock">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.luks-lock-others">
      <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.linux-md">
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.linux-lvm2">
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.cancel-job-others">
      <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.inhibit-polling">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>
  <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-set-spindown">
      <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

[ivanovnegro]

If you e.g. have LighDM installed as your display manager, it will handle the automounting, if not, you are responsible for it even if you say that you want automounting from the Xfce disk preferences.

[delphys]

looks like I am using xdm

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sudo dpkg -l | grep -i dm
ii  bsdmainutils                             9.0.5                         amd64        collection of more utilities from FreeBSD
ii  dmeventd                                 2:1.02.77-3                   amd64        Linux Kernel Device Mapper event daemon
ii  dmidecode                                2.12-1                        amd64        SMBIOS/DMI table decoder
ii  dmsetup                                  2:1.02.77-3                   amd64        Linux Kernel Device Mapper userspace library
ii  iptables                                 1.4.18-1                      amd64        administration tools for packet filtering and NAT
ii  libclass-methodmaker-perl                2.18-1+b1                     amd64        Perl module for creating generic methods
ii  libquadmath0:amd64                       4.8.1-5                       amd64        GCC Quad-Precision Math Library
ii  libxdmcp6:amd64                          1:1.1.1-1                     amd64        X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
ii  libxdmcp6:i386                           1:1.1.1-1                     i386         X11 Display Manager Control Protocol library
rc  nodm                                     0.11-1.3                      amd64        automatic display manager
ii  passwd                                   1:4.1.5.1-1                   amd64        change and administer password and group data
ii  pdmenu                                   1.3.2                         amd64        simple console menu program
ii  policykit-1                              0.105-3                       amd64        framework for managing administrative policies and privileges
rc  xdm                                      1:1.1.11-1                    amd64        X display manager

[wuxmedia]

well, xdm's crap for suspend, that's all i know.
my xfce64 doesn't pick up a USB. but i only 'dd' to my sticks...

[delphys]

ok Thank you all

[machinebacon]

yeah, xdm is not doing this authorization. LightDM, SLiM (IIRC) and gdm definitely do it.

[delphys]

switched to lightdm & this fixed it .. Thnx