new gvfs* causes authenication on mounting/unmounting internal drives thru nautilus

#1 May 28, 2012

Could be something that other packages due to be upgraded will resolve or something needed to be fixed Can't imagine it is now intentional (doesn't affect external drives & seems to use the auth timeout of 15 min or whatever bug report

#2 May 28, 2012

Indeed. Internal volumes are now mounted under /run/media/$USER/ instead of /media/.

Most strange!

Data volumes are owned by $USER, but bootable volumes are owned by ROOT. I think that may have been the case before, though...

#3 May 28, 2012

For me, the internal volumes AND volumes on a USB external disk are mounted on /run/media/$USER/; hot-plugging a USB stick also brings it up mounted on /run/media/$USER/.

I agree that the external drive volumes seem to be mounting correctly, whereas the internal (dev/sda) volumes are asking for authentification before being mounted.

Nothing appears in /etc/fstab for any of them (after a fresh install of quantal). There is some information somewhere else that needs to be reset to default to mounting internal volumes...

#4 May 28, 2012

Curiouser and curiouser!

Clicking on a volume on /dev/sda (a true internal volume) brings up the authentification dialog. Then it mounts, once the password is given. But the other volumes on /dev/sda are still not mounted, and clicking on ANY of them causes the Nautilus window to vanish - probably a crash. Re-opening Nautilus shows the second internal volume not mounted, as before, but the first one is mounted. Clicking on the second one again mounts it and opens the contents in Nautilus.

And this repeats - now click on another internal volume, Nautilus vanishes again. Open it up again and try again - no problem for the first try, crash again for the second one...

Opening Nautilus from a terminal I got the following errors - all too familiar these days, don't know if they mean anything...

sc@scqq:~$ nautilus

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.

(nautilus:2367): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid uninstantiatable type (null)' in cast to GObject'

(nautilus:2367): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_remove_weak_pointer: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

(nautilus:2367): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_container_foreach: assertion `GTK_IS_CONTAINER (container)' failed

#5 May 28, 2012

One thing that stands out - The policy in /usr/share/polkit-1/action/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy is a new name, udisks2, that's not in in the default .pkla

So it used to be in udisks.policy action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal"

That's not there anymore, intead there is action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system" & action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat"

The current .pkla shows for this -

[Mounting, checking, etc. of internal drives]
Identity=unix-group:admin;unix-group:sudo
Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-*;org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart*
ResultActive=yes

So editing it to be udisks[COLOR="Red"]2[/COLOR] resolves here

sudo gedit /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d/com.ubuntu.desktop.pkla

#6 May 29, 2012

There is also this bug I've seen concerning mounting drives thru nautilus

For this you need at least 2 internal If you try to mount more than one _from the same nautilus window_ then nautilus will crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1002506

#7 May 29, 2012

mc4man said: There is also this bug I've seen concerning mounting drives thru nautilus

For this you need at least 2 internal If you try to mount more than one _from the same nautilus window_ then nautilus will crash https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1002506 OK - I've confirmed that bug report.

Also changed (both) the udisks to udisks2 in the .pkla you mentioned. I'll see if it work now..

#8 May 29, 2012

The new gvfs does not use udisks any more. Instead, it needs to have the package udisks2 installed. However, gvfs is not marked to depend on it.

#9 May 29, 2012

Harry33 said: The new gvfs does not use udisks any more.

Instead, it needs to have the package udisks2 installed. However, gvfs is not marked to depend on it.

udisks2 was introduced/installed on 5/25 as a dep of gnome-disk-utility, gvfs now will use that policy (udisks2) So in this case I believe it's policykit-desktop-privileges that needs an update, report in 1st post

Edit: so the fix will be to add on to the action line using non wild card & leave the orig also, as in -

Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-*;org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart*;[COLOR="Blue"]org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system;org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab;[/COLOR]

Whatever the new 'seat' one is will require auth unity still may use udisk as does update-notifier so that may be one reason to leave the orig. udisks *

#10 May 29, 2012

New update to policykit-desktop-privileges (0.11) is availabla for Quantal.

Here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/+source/policykit-desktop-privileges/0.11

#11 May 30, 2012

scradock said: For me, the internal volumes AND volumes on a USB external disk are mounted on /run/media/$USER/; hot-plugging a USB stick also brings it up mounted on /run/media/$USER/.

. Didn't notice yesterday, could of sworn a usb drive was mounted as before, at least as far as icon & options Anyway now all removable media goes to /run/media/$USER/ with exception of audio cd's

I'm getting a new usb icon for a flash drive - looks like old one + a yellow monitor overlayed

The only real change is usb drives can now only be unmounted, no more eject or safely remove options (sorta liked safely remove myself

#12 May 30, 2012

mc4man said: udisks2 was introduced/installed on 5/25 as a dep of gnome-disk-utility, gvfs now will use that policy (udisks2)

So in this case I believe it's policykit-desktop-privileges that needs an update, report in 1st post

Edit: so the fix will be to add on to the action line using non wild card & leave the orig also, as in -

Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-*;org.freedesktop.udisks.drive-ata-smart*;[COLOR="Blue"]org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system;org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-fstab;[/COLOR]

Whatever the new 'seat' one is will require auth unity still may use udisk as does update-notifier so that may be one reason to leave the orig. udisks * I'd really like to get back to where it was before:

Disks mounted as /media instead of /run/media/$user

No password required to mount disks internal or external

Any hope?

Thanks, Jerry

#13 May 30, 2012

jerrylamos said: I'd really like to get back to where it was before: