On a Toshiba Satellite computer I installed Linux Mint XFCE 18.3 64-bit. The computer is old and slow, but still acceptable. There is a aggravating problem however: it is impossible to mount a hard disk via USB. Thunar sees the partitions, but trying to mount them I get the error:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount is not registered (polkit-error-quark, 0).
I have searched on the internet and on this forum, but I could not find the solution, or understand what is written. The hard disk I try to mount has an ext4 system partition, a swap partition, a home partition with a few user directories and a vfat partition. Trying to mount any of them I get this error.
On Rosalinux PLasma R10 all partitions mount effortlessly. For this old computer however the lighter XFCE works better.
What can I do to make it possible that I can mount this hard disk on my XFCE installation?
Greetings,
Erkik Jan.
[Worked Around] cannot mount USB hard disk in Mint XFCE
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[Worked Around] cannot mount USB hard disk in Mint XFCE
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Re: cannot mount USB hard disk in Mint XFCE
A Thunar mount is going to be a managed connection... possibly your user needs to be a member of the plugdev group? Just a guess though, I am in a Devuan system right now...
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Dear Mute Ant,
thank you for your reaction. I do not dare to change members of system groups, because I do not know the consequences for the system. I solved the problem, or better: worked around it, by removing Mint XFCE and replacing it by Mageia 6 XFCE. Everything works now as expected, and I am able to read/write external hard disks.
Greetings,
Erik Jan.
thank you for your reaction. I do not dare to change members of system groups, because I do not know the consequences for the system. I solved the problem, or better: worked around it, by removing Mint XFCE and replacing it by Mageia 6 XFCE. Everything works now as expected, and I am able to read/write external hard disks.
Greetings,
Erik Jan.
Re: [Worked Around] cannot mount USB hard disk in Mint XFCE
It turns out that the problem was not caused by anything in Linux Mint XFCE. After installing Mageia 6 XFCE I got other problems that made me desperate. A sudden brainwave made me boot with the option "diagnostics". The result was a "BIOHD-8 A SMART test failed".
I am glad that my problem had nothing to do with my Mint installation; All my Mint Installations on other computers always worked without a hitch out of the box.
So the real "work around" will be buying another hard disk.
Greetings,
Erik Jan.
I am glad that my problem had nothing to do with my Mint installation; All my Mint Installations on other computers always worked without a hitch out of the box.
So the real "work around" will be buying another hard disk.
Greetings,
Erik Jan.