F11: After upgrade, HAL refuses to automount USB sticks

[mpolo]

After upgrading from F10 to F11, upon inserting a USB stick, I get:

Unable to mount KINGSTON

org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.NotAuthorized:
org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount no

I can manually mount (without escalating privileges) with gnome-mount -d /dev/sdc1 .

How can I resolve this?

[AdamW]

Run 'polkit-gnome-authorization' and look at the settings for freedesktop / devicekit / disks. This is the joy of PolicyKit. I wrote a blog post on it a while back...

http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01...avit-and-more/

that might help you understand. Or, y'know, not.

[placentiusz]

when i run in textmode(3) and run Xwindiws manual i have similar problem. In x11 mode(5) all works fine.

[hectordavie]

I have the same problem. 'polkit-gnome-authorization' indeed works, but it would be good if it were accessible directly from the Gnome System menu...

[EdN]

I downloaded Fedora 11 and put it on a DVD. Then I booted from the DVD and did an upgrade (from existing Fedora 10 which was updated and working fine). It appeared to load successfully with no error messages. I rebooted to the installed Fedora 11 and that's when the trouble started. When I try to mount any internal drive or removable drive (flashdrive) from the file manager I get the following message:
org.freedesktop.PolicyKit.Error.NotAuthorized: org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount no

this happens whether I'm logged in as root or as a regular user.

Another problem: From within a terminal window I tried to use yum and I get the following message:
There was a problem importing one of the Python modules
required to run yum. The error leading to this problem was:

No module named yum

What should I do?
Also is there any way I can go back to my previous Fedora 10 without reloading from scratch?
Needless to say I'm not very pleased with Fedora 11.
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[mpolo]

The solution cited above -- 'polkit-gnome-authorization' -- should work for the first problem. Fedora 11 just changed the defaults to values that make the system very hard to use as a desktop.

For yum, maybe you could go to a mirror through your Internet browser, then download a new yum package, then install it with rpm -Uvh . Hopefully this updates the python modules you need. (I don't know why yours got messed up there -- my yum had no problems after upgrade...)

[EdN]

Originally Posted by mpolo

The solution cited above -- 'polkit-gnome-authorization' -- should work for the first problem. Fedora 11 just changed the defaults to values that make the system very hard to use as a desktop.

For yum, maybe you could go to a mirror through your Internet browser, then download a new yum package, then install it with rpm -Uvh . Hopefully this updates the python modules you need. (I don't know why yours got messed up there -- my yum had no problems after upgrade...)

Hi mpolo,
I followed your advise and after a lot of fiddling with "polkit-gnome-authorization" I solved my first problem.
Also I solved the second problem by reloading yum from "http://rpmfind.net".
There's just one more problem left - Google Earth no longer displays correctly. It randomly splashes the globe with variously shaped dark blotches. Must be something with the video, although it was fine with Fedora 10.
Anyways, thanks a lot for your help.

[ootttoo]

Hi,

Has anyone been able to resolve this?

F11 will not allow a USB drive to be mounted.

I edited authorizations in polkit-gnome-authorization.
now they read:
Mount filesystems from removable drives: anyone:yes, console:yes, active console (whatever that means??!): Admin Auth. (keep indef)

AlanW's blog didn't address this for me b/c "grant" buttons aren't working (can't select users)

I am utterly confused with this.
Why did I ever upgrade?! What a mistake.

Thanks
Mark

[EdN]

Originally Posted by ootttoo

Hi,

Has anyone been able to resolve this?

F11 will not allow a USB drive to be mounted.

I edited authorizations in polkit-gnome-authorization.
now they read:
Mount filesystems from removable drives: anyone:yes, console:yes, active console (whatever that means??!): Admin Auth. (keep indef)

AlanW's blog didn't address this for me b/c "grant" buttons aren't working (can't select users)

I am utterly confused with this.
Why did I ever upgrade?! What a mistake.

Thanks
Mark

Get the following article "PolicyKit (and KDE), Navit and more" by HappyAssassin

http://www.happyassassin.net/2009/01...avit-and-more/

and follow the instructions given in the 12th paragraph or so. The paragraph begins with 'Click on "Mount file systems from internal drives." ...'
Apparently when you run polkit-gnome-authorization you need to do Explicit Authorizations rather than Implicit Authorizations. It worked for me.
Hope it helps.
Ed

[ootttoo]

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the reply.

My problems is that under the "explicit authorizations", I click on "Grant", but no users are visible in the pulldown -- not "anyone" or myself-- I can't select any users.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thank you,
Mark

[ootttoo]

To get the users to show up in the drop-down, I reverted the implicit auth. to default (via the push button). Then I was able to view the user list and add myself under "explicit authorization".


But it still doesn't work...

Cheers

[imabug]

I've run into the same problem following the latest round of updates. None of my USB storage devices automount like they used to upon logging in. After logging in, if I remove the devices and plug them back in, they're detected and mount but having to do this every time is a PITA.

I've tried the polkit-gnome-authorization thing (org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks and org.freedesktop.hal.storage) and granted myself explicit authorization but it hasn't helped in my case.

[EdN]

Originally Posted by ootttoo

Hi Ed,

Thanks for the reply.

My problems is that under the "explicit authorizations", I click on "Grant", but no users are visible in the pulldown -- not "anyone" or myself-- I can't select any users.

Any ideas how to fix this?

Thank you,
Mark

All I can say is the following is the procedure I went through:
When I click on "Grant" a "Grant Authorization" box comes up. Under "Beneficiary" I checked the "Show system users" box and then click on the Select user.." down arrow and a large user list appears. I select the user I want to grant permission to, and under "Constraints" click on "None". I then click on the "Grant" box in the bottom right hand corner and the Authorization screen adds that user to the "Explicit Authorizations" box. That's it.
I hope this helps.
Ed

[link_gaetz]

I already had an explicit authorization to mount internal drives (because I got tired of entering the root password to mount NTFS partitions every time I logged in). For some reason after upgrading from Fedora 10 to 11 this doesn't work anymore. Any ideas?

[toddbailey]

any ideas what this means:

[root@M2 todd]# polkit-gnome-authorization

** (polkit-gnome-authorization:3607): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
** (polkit-gnome-authorization:3607): DEBUG: Already running
[root@M2 todd]# polkit-gnome-authorization

** (polkit-gnome-authorization:3609): WARNING **: Couldn't connect to session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
** (polkit-gnome-authorization:3609): DEBUG: Already running


Do I need to enable some service?