Yet another dbus/udisks issue. [SOLVED]

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The Unabeefer · Post by **The Unabeefer** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:02 am

Hey there. I've spent the past day+ exhausting every option I could find / think of... so I'm finally turning here for help.

THE ERROR:

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# udisks --mount /dev/sdb1
Cannot find device with major:minor 8:17: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

THE BACKSTORY:
I've recently removed e17 and all non-essential applications (audacity, k9copy, transmission, etc... nothing life-threatening) from my system, changed to the desktop/kde profile, done all the necessary uDNv world updates and rebuilds, before installing KDE4 more-or-less fresh.

Absolutely everything works wonderfully, except my external devices aren't detected (by the device notifier, dolphin). They show up just fine in /dev but when I try to mount them in a console (as root and/or my user) or in spacefm (my fall-back file mgr), I get the above error.

I have tried an empty-tree world rebuild; I've tried un-installing and re-installing dbus, udev, udisks... as well as tested a few different versions of udisks (as kde4 pulls in an older one than is currently available) but to no avail.

[panic] HELP!! [/panic]

I can/will post my emerge --info and whatever is needed if someone has any clue about my problem! It always tends to be something so very simple, and I end up feeling quite stupid... but I would appreciate any direction with this. Thank you kindly!!

BillWho · Post by **BillWho** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 1:54 am

The Unabeefer,

No need to panic - I just discovered this here

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root@gentoo-gateway junk2 # udisks --dump

(udisks:1416): udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
root@gentoo-gateway junk2 #

I hardly use the cl udisks, so I was surprised by this

I don't see a bug written on it so I'm curious if anyone else has this problem

The Unabeefer · Post by **The Unabeefer** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:01 am

BillWho wrote:The Unabeefer,

No need to panic - I just discovered this here
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root@gentoo-gateway junk2 # udisks --dump

(udisks:1416): udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)
root@gentoo-gateway junk2 # 
I hardly use the cl udisks, so I was surprised by this I don't see a bug written on it so I'm curious if anyone else has this problem

Yeah, I get that too... but are you at least able to mount your disks?? I can only do that as root manually in command line... and I have to do any file moving/copying as root.

I'm hoping you're implying it's not just me and that maybe it'll get fixed soon! I like it when I'm not the only one with a problem.

BillWho · Post by **BillWho** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:37 am

The Unabeefer,

I'm not sure, but I think it's a polkit problem. I just got a message from pcmanfm when I plugged in my external backup drive about unauthorized something or other and polkit was in the message.

I always mount it from a script anyway and that worked fine

The Unabeefer · Post by **The Unabeefer** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 2:40 am

BillWho wrote:The Unabeefer,

I'm not sure, but I think it's a polkit problem. I just got a message from pcmanfm when I plugged in my external backup drive about unauthorized something or other and polkit was in the message.

I always mount it from a script anyway and that worked fine

I remember seeing something in the messages when I re-installed polkit, but it didn't seem to be anything that had to do with my issue. I think I'll do it again and find out.

BillWho · Post by **BillWho** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 3:17 am

This is the message I get: trying to access any unmounted partition from a bookmark. Otherwise I get a blank window.

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Not authorized to perform operation (polkit authority not available and caller is not uid 0)

It looks like there's something in the works http://cgit.freedesktop.org/udisks/comm ... 03e0a42b42

The Unabeefer · Post by **The Unabeefer** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:13 am

Yep, as I said... something simple.

Just run this as root:

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# usermod -d /var/lib/polkit-1 polkitd

and either reboot or logout or whatever.

It's been mentioned in a thread before... and it was definitely in the messages for the upgrade to polkit 0.106 I just happened to pay more attention to the bit about adm being the preferred group over wheel now. Anyways, all fixed for me. Morphinominal!

BillWho · Post by **BillWho** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 4:28 am

The Unabeefer,

Thanks for that info

I read that message in the ebuild, but it just didn't click for some reason

I was checking an strace cursing and scratching my head

You saved me some aggravation

OPelerin · Post by **OPelerin** » Wed Jun 20, 2012 9:48 am

Thanks for the tip it works like a charm now

supernovae · Post by **supernovae** » Fri Jun 22, 2012 9:45 am

The Unabeefer wrote:Yep, as I said... something simple.

Just run this as root:
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# usermod -d /var/lib/polkit-1 polkitd
and either reboot or logout or whatever.

It's been mentioned in a thread before... and it was definitely in the messages for the upgrade to polkit 0.106 I just happened to pay more attention to the bit about adm being the preferred group over wheel now. Anyways, all fixed for me. Morphinominal!

Thanks for finding that, wish i'd paid a bit more attention too.