[SOLVED] Gnome prompts for root password to mount usb stick

[Nitro_146]

Hello,

Since last update from 3.16 to 3.18 Gnome does not automatically mount USB flash drive anymore. It now prompts for root password.
This is annoying, how to revert to the previous behavior ?

Thank you.
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Linux, cause booting is for adding new hardware

[papandreoos]

[vasettoo]

The same behaviour occurs with partitions not mounted in fstab but instead in '/run/media/$USER/<mount_point>'. I suspect udev rule(s) is to blame.

[WvR]

I can confirm this bug here as well, it started yesterday when I restarted my workstation.

I updated to a newer kernel (4.1.15-gentoo-r1), taking into account all the systemd settings.

I doubt udev is to blame, my /etc/udev/rules.d/ is empty (?)

[yuhu]

[Nitro_146]

That does not work for me.
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Linux, cause booting is for adding new hardware

[aahamlin]

Found this "gkr-pam: no password is available for user" in while running, $ journalctl --user -f, and plugging in flash drive.

Search on google got me to this blog post by Mike Greene. He shows the two setting in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy file that need to be changed to allow users in active logon sessions to mount and eject media like earlier versions did.

References:
http://www.mgreene.org/?p=221
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/polkit/docs/latest/polkit.8.html

[Nitro_146]

It seems to work. Thanks !
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[dlaor]

I'm running stable amd64. Installing unstable udisks-2.1.6, as advised in

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=576996,

solved this issue for me. Hope this helps!