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 Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:49 pm Post subject: Can't mount USB drive in KDE |
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When I plug a USB drive into the USB reader the KDE device notifier comes up and when I try to mount the device, I get a message "You are not authorized to mount this device". This is blatantly an error.
I am the only user on this machine and have been doing these things for a long time. Unfortunately KUser is broken also, so I can't see what authorizations it thinks I have.
Any thoughts on how to correct it? |
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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kuser would not help you there anyway.
- What icon do you click before that error comes up?
- Does it work from dolphin?
- What session manager do you use (consolekit, elogind or systemd)?
- How do you start into your Plasma-5 session? |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:24 pm Post subject: |
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On mounting the USB drive:
I plug in the USB. I get the device notifier message. I have complained about the trick on the right before, so I click on the funny arrow on the right of the mount message. I get the error message.
I have also tried to just select one of the mount messages; mount with File Manager. That gives the same result.
I believe this is a new feature. Unfortunately I don't use USB drives regularly and only assume this happened with systemd, or one of the new versions of plasma. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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Good, you managed 2/4 questions, let's find out the rest:
| asturm wrote: | - What session manager do you use (consolekit, elogind or systemd)?
- How do you start into your Plasma-5 session? |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:35 pm Post subject: |
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I mounted the disk by inserting it. I haven't tried Dolphin. Not sure even how to do it...
This system was recently upgraded to use systemd. In accordance with the recent text message.
I start plasma from the login screen. |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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I was able to confirm that mounting the USB drive in Dolphon fails also. The error message was:
An error occurred while accessing '3.7GiB Removable Media', the system responed: An unspecified error has occurred: Not authorized to perform opeation. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:35 pm Post subject: |
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That is a very odd problem.
| Featherfoot wrote: | | I start plasma from the login screen. |
What is your login screen?
Are you sure USE=systemd is enabled globally and everything is consistent wrt that flag? |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:41 pm Post subject: |
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Nope. I'm not sure.
I operated in "command mode" based on the instructions that were given. I just added systemd to make.conf and will try updating world again. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 9:46 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm not sure what news item prompted you to switch to systemd - but it also begs the question what profile do you currently use? |
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Do you have reference to the USB drive in /etc/fstab ? If. yes, it seems you need to delete it for KDE automount to work
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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I did add systemd to /etc/make.conf. It did not affect mounting disks.
Here is my fstab: I don't see anything that looks like a USN.
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bopper /etc # cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# noatime turns off atimes for increased performance (atimes normally aren't
# needed; notail increases performance of ReiserFS (at the expense of storage
# efficiency). It's safe to drop the noatime options if you want and to
# switch between notail / tail freely.
#
# The root filesystem should have a pass number of either 0 or 1.
# All other filesystems should have a pass number of 0 or greater than 1.
#
# See the manpage fstab(5) for more information.
#
# <fs> <mountpoint> <type> <opts> <dump/pass>
# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
UUID=ce12cbd3-e132-49fd-9076-4a444316c489 / ext4 nofail,noatime,nodiratime,discard,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=dfbd92d1-ef3f-4496-bc71-97aacf0fd096 /boot ext4 nofail,noatime,nodiratime,discard 0 1
/dev/mapper/pdc_dcgidcdjbp6 /gentoo ext4 nofail,user_xattr,errors=remount-ro 0 1
/dev/mapper/pdc_dcgidcdjbp7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_dcgidcdjbp2 /windows ntfs-3g noauto,user 1 3
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,user 0 0
/dev/mapper/pdc_dcgidcdjbp5 /kubuntu ext4 nofail,errors=remount-ro 1 3
/dev/mapper/pdc_dcgidcdjbp3 /boot2 ext4 nofail,defaults 1 4
# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
# use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
#/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
#/var/tmp tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=1777 0 0
#/var/log tmpfs defaults,noatime,mode=0755 0 0
#/dev/mapper/pdc_dcgidcdjbp6 / ext4 errors=remount-ro,user_xattr 0 1
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | | I did add systemd to /etc/make.conf. It did not affect mounting disks. |
You know that adding stuff to make.conf does not change anything before you update world with -N?
Please answer questions.
| asturm wrote: | | I'm not sure what news item prompted you to switch to systemd - but it also begs the question what profile do you currently use? |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:31 pm Post subject: |
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Of course, I did the "emerge --newuse --deep --update --with-bdeps=y world" command. There were a few packages updated but nothing I would associate with KDE Plasma. I have been using Gentoo for a long time.
I got a "news" from Gentoo saying that they would be shortly adopting profile 17.There were a series of steps to perform to accomplish this. I performed them rigorously, presuming that they had been verified. I wish those were the only things that had changed. KDE plasma had some recent updates and gentoo-sources seems to be doing a version dance.
I posted a couple of other problems with KDE-plasma.
There was a notice today about profile 17.1 that was marked experimental. I didn't do that. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | | I got a "news" from Gentoo saying that they would be shortly adopting profile 17. |
| Code: | [12] default/linux/amd64/17.0
[13] default/linux/amd64/17.0/selinux
[14] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened
[15] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened/selinux
[16] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop
[17] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome
[18] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd
[19] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma
[20] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd *
[21] default/linux/amd64/17.0/developer
[22] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib
[23] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened
[24] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened/selinux
[25] default/linux/amd64/17.0/systemd
[26] default/linux/amd64/17.0/x32 |
Notice the star. Where is the star on your system...
When you were switching to systemd, for whatever yet undisclosed reason, did you check the wiki for it? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2017 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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[11] default/linux/amd64/13.0/x32
[12] default/linux/amd64/17.0
[13] default/linux/amd64/17.0/selinux
[14] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened
[15] default/linux/amd64/17.0/hardened/selinux
[16] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop
[17] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome
[18] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/gnome/systemd
[19] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma
[20] default/linux/amd64/17.0/desktop/plasma/systemd *
[21] default/linux/amd64/17.0/developer
[22] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib
[23] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened
[24] default/linux/amd64/17.0/no-multilib/hardened/selinux
[25] default/linux/amd64/17.0/systemd
[26] default/linux/amd64/17.0/x32
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:33 am Post subject: |
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| You can anticipate the answer to question 2: No I didn't have the systemd option in the kernel. The instructions didn't say to do it. I'm working on it now, plus the Wiki article. Lots of oddball settings for a piece of "standard" gentoo setting. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:39 am Post subject: |
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| What instructions, please? Why do you think you had to switch to systemd at all? |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:41 am Post subject: |
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| The news item said to... Although the fact that there were profiles without systemd should have been a clue. I'm trying to be a good user here. Doing what I'm told. Not thinking too much. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:42 am Post subject: |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | | Not thinking too much. |
That's a problem. |
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Featherfoot
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:54 am Post subject: |
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You may be right.
The truth of the matter is that some of us aren't spending our lives figuring out how to configure linux. We're doing other things and gentoo is (just) a very good tool.
I like to think I was following the instructions fairly well. The instructions left a lot to be desired. They implied systemd was required when it wasn't and they were incomplete. If the author doesn't want to go into everything, he should point off to the appropriate documents. As a retired programmer, though, I know what to expect. |
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asturm
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 12:57 am Post subject: |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | | I like to think I was following the instructions fairly well. The instructions left a lot to be desired. They implied systemd was required when it wasn't and they were incomplete. |
Show us where that is. Somehow I don't see forums and bugzilla flooded with systemd mass-migrations. |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 1:30 am Post subject: |
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You can abuse me for a while longer if you want. Obviously I screwed up along the way somehow. Maybe you can help get me off of Linux Mint 18.1 and back on gentoo.
Here is my grub2 setup. Is there a place where the init=/lib/systemd/systemd will work? I have tried after the real_root statement. Now it is before it. Neither works to mount the real root. Am I screwed?
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menuentry 'Gentoo 4.12.12 on SSD' --class gentoo --class gnu-linux --class os {
recordfail
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='(hd2,msdos5)'
# search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root 8b524b22-ca28-49c1-8bbf-9361f7e3f23f
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root dfbd92d1-ef3f-4496-bc71-97aacf0fd096
linux /kernel-genkernel-x86_64-4.12.12-gentoo root=/dev/ram0 init=/lib/systemd/systemd real_root=UUID=ce12cbd3-e132-49fd-9076-4a444316c489 dodmraid ro
initrd /initramfs-genkernel-x86_64-4.12.12-gentoo
}
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asturm
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 2:03 am Post subject: |
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| Featherfoot wrote: | | You can abuse me for a while longer if you want. |
If you think this is abuse then maybe I should stop helping here. I just dislike having to ask several times before I get the required information.
Unfortunately my systemd experience is rather limited, the only place where I use it is on a system not using grub2 but efibootmgr. And there I am using the built-in kernel command line feature (CONFIG_CMDLINE).
EDIT: Isn't it right there in the wiki? https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd#GRUB_2 (I think the way you showed it above it is fine, but the order should not matter) |
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| Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 2:57 am Post subject: |
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I appreciate your help and your willingness to try to resolve all the issues quickly. I am not as meticulous as most programmers and you have helped me through several sticky spots before.
This is a RAID 1 system/ It boots LinuxMint and Gentoo so that when Gentoo becomes unbootable, I can chroot in from Mint and build a new system. I also have windows 10 on it. . I configured a SSD with my gentoo system and gentoo boot files. Hence all the options in the linux statement. I am puzzled that it now seems to be mounting the wrong system.
Oh, well, I'll fool around with it. At the moment, I think I have the systemd set up as well as I can. |
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