XFCE Mounting drives "not authorized" [Solved]

[bitERROR]

Hi!

I can't mount any hard drive or removable disk with Thunar (or Nautilus) in XFCE.

Mounting works correctly in a terminal by typing (for ex.):
# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

But Thunar seems unable to do. Doesn't ask for authentication, directly says;

Can't mount 'DRIVE_NAME'
"Not Authorized"

Could you help me with this issue?

[batvink]

i don't know much about xfce,
but you can put the drives in your '/etc/fstab' file

example:
(first create the mountpoints as root, then edit fstab, matching your mountpoints)

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/dev/sda5                                         /media/server      ntfs-3g    defaults           0 0
/dev/sdc1                                         /media/Se7en       ntfs-3g    defaults           0 0
/dev/sdc2                                         /media/backup      ntfs-3g    defaults           0 0


warning: It does have a disadvantage,
everybody who can login to your computer also has full read/write access to your drives.
If you want, you can restrict, or forbid other users to access the drives by delete 'defaults'
and add disk quota or set user ID (uid) and/or Group ID (gid)
more about fstab:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab
more about mount:
http://linux.die.net/man/8/mount
please note that some options are filesystem specific.

[joost]

Can you post the output of this:

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rc-update show | grep consolekit

You need to run it as root.

[bitERROR]

Hi, thanks for your answers.

I prefer not to change fstab with static values, my idea is to fix this problem with Xfce.

@joost

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# rc-update show | grep consolekit
           consolekit | boot

More information, the first DM installed in this machine was gdm + gnome2->3, now it's slim + xfce4, following the gentoo guide.

[joost]

consolekit is at boot level, good thing.
Just wanted to make sure.

You have polkit-gnome installed there?
This should give you a dialog where you need to elevate your authority. If you do not have it installed, install it.

Alternatively you can change the rules and simply allow users to mount partitions on internal HD.
open: /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy
look for: <action id="org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal">
change its configuration to: <allow_active>yes</allow_active>

[bitERROR]

Yes, I have.

I'll try when I come back home tonight.

[rumahsiput]

I had similar problems when I installed xfce (wifi won't work as well and also thunar took a long time to load) but I went ahead and updated the system anyway (wired) since I already lost gnome. After the full update, wifi worked and installing xfce-extra/xfce4-notifyd, all my problems were solved. I hope this help.

[bitERROR]

Hi,

I edited /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy (line 30) and it doesn't work (I restarted xfce and system).

I'm thinking that the problem is more global than just device mounting. polkit-gnome is installed but dialogs doesn't appear anywhere in my XFCE, except when opening sulfur. Can't graphically change system options.

Trying, for ex.,

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$ gksu users-admin

asks for authentication but after authenticate the users-admin window remains frozen with all controls disabled.

I tried to purge and reinstall polkit-gnome and nothing changes.

[bitERROR]

I've followed this gentoo thread and now authentication dialogs appear when accessing to some system configurations GUIs like users-admin, but ... still not running with Thunar, Nautilus or when simply shutting down or rebooting from the panel plugin.

[bitERROR]

@rumahsiput how did you do the "full system update" ?