hal-storage-fixed-mount

[tinnitus]

hal-storage-fixed-mount-all-options refused UID 1000 unable to access the drive.

[Husse]

Welcome to Mint
I won't say welcome tinnitus, because i suffer from it
I get the general region of your problem, but could you describe it a bit more?

[fdv]

hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hal-storage-fixed-mount+refused+uid+1000&btnG=Google+Search

Happens on a LOT of distros. Am using Mint 3 with KDE. Also happens on Kubuntu 710 (but not 704) and Freespire.

Put simply, I cannot access any of my drives except the Linux boot partition (and swap of course).

Here is my /etc/fstab

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
#  -- This file has been automaticly generated by ntfs-config --
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>

proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdh2 :
UUID=4d1047df-5f28-4462-b155-44843ca0ae89 / ext3 
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Entry for /dev/sdh1 :
UUID=348455A984556DFC /media/sde1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
# Entry for /dev/sdh5 :
UUID=d9631695-3162-40bf-9f41-7ca88b4f9788 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

So! Somewhere online, I found a “solution;â€￾ instead of trying to directly access / mount them, I should sudo mkdir /media/DISK1, DISK2, etc etc etc etc etc etc for all of my drives. Ok, done.

Then I should add this to the etc/fstab file above, at the end:

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/dev/sdh1 /media/DISK0 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdi1 /media/DISK1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdj1 /media/DISK2 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sde1 /media/USB1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/sdf1 /media/USB2 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0

You will see USB devices listed above, BTW. This happens with my USB drives, my IDE drives, my SCSI drives...

This worked until I rebooted. When I rebooted, I had the SAME PROBLEM. /etc/fstab was Unchanged, and to make it weirder, now my drives were sdk, sdl, sdm, etc. They just moved down the alphabet. I tried changing those trailing zeros above to various combinations of 0,1 and 1,1 and 1,2 and 2,2 and 2,1 and 2,0. Nothing fixes this.

[fdv]

This is a very widely reported bug in anything *ubuntu based.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/98751
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... bug/115768

PolicyKit wasn't ported to Debian and as I understand things, the next major rev of Ubuntu (and therefore it's HAL) shipped anyway.

The solution is to REMOVE this:
+ if (!invoked_by_uid || strcmp(invoked_by_uid, "0"))
+ if (!privilege || strcmp (privilege, "hal-storage-removable-mount"))
+ permission_denied_privilege (privilege, invoked_by_uid);

Which file? No idea. I haven't found anyone who could tell me.

[Husse]

This seems interesting... and of course no good for you
I think I'll have to study it a bit, but honestly I have not seen any report about this apart from your
Now I cant view the entire forum - only about half of the posts

[fdv]

Full disclosure and all details on the bug as I understand it.

This is a very widely reported bug in anything *ubuntu based.

Example of bug filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... +bug/98751

The actual reason the error happens:
PolicyKit wasn't ported to Debian and as I understand things, the next major rev of Ubuntu (and therefore it's HAL) shipped anyway. Bug therefore affects ALL *ubuntu based distributions.

Solution #1 that does not work
sudo mkdir /media/hdb5, then chmod it, then sudo mount /dev/hdb5 /media/hdb5
Reason this does not work:
Because on reboot, it all goes away!

Solution #1a that also does not work
Doing the above and also editing fstab to do this for you, as in adding
/dev/hdb5 /media/DISK0 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
Reason this does not work:
Because on reboot, not only does it not work, but your devices have moved one letter down the alphabet -- and hdb5 doesn't show anywhere!

Solution #2 that does not work
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Autom ... Partitions
Reason this does not work:
Has good info, but no solution is listed for this infamous error.

Solution #3 that does not work
Use some sort of graphical file manager to check some sort of box. Example: checking a "user" box on a tab in Dolphin.
Reason this does not work:
The tab doesn't appear for devices that generate this error, OR it is greyed out.

There is ONE ACTUAL solution and TWO workarounds to this problem.

Actual solution #1:
PolicyKit must be added to all *ubuntu based distributions.

Workaround #1
/dev/YOURDRIVE /media/NAMEYOUWANTTOUSE ntfs-3g users,defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0
By adding "users" you allow anyone with any permission level to read/write to all drives.

Workaround #2
REMOVE this:
+ if (!invoked_by_uid || strcmp(invoked_by_uid, "0"))
+ if (!privilege || strcmp (privilege, "hal-storage-removable-mount"))
+ permission_denied_privilege (privilege, invoked_by_uid);

Which file? No idea. I haven't found anyone who could tell me. If I knew, I'd recompile whatever file it was and submit it to someone in authority or offer it for download on my own website.

Problem with Workaround #1. Options on three drives are greyed out, and on one, a permissions tab is missing altogether!!?! This is an animated GIF to illustrate the problem:
http://vorck.com/images/mountproblem2.gif

Problem #2, generally with Linux not specifically Mint. This kludge of assigning devices that should be recognized as valid media to directories in mnt, and then chmoding and editing fstab... This is ridiculous. I'd like to be able to see media devices as media devices... not assign them to directories.

Thoughts?

[Husse]

OK - it's KDE some way
I don't understand what triggers it or is this "from start"
There must be a difference somewhere as not everyone has it Looking for the file in which to remove....

[fdv]

Hello! This behavior is from start. Right from the moment the system starts, I get the error, and devices in question greyed out.

http://vorck.com/images/mountproblem2.gif

How the heck did you find out it's KDE?! Pretty good detective work so far.

Really appreciate the help and any insight you have.

FDV

[Husse]

Am using Mint 3 with KDE.

That's how
But there was something else too, that I can't remember now.
I searched for strcmp in /etc in my gnome but nada...
strcmp is in the text to be removed you quote
You also find it /boot in abi.... and system.map but that's not it
You can use

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grep -r -i -o -s -I "searchstring" /etc/*

to look for strcmp
Note that the -I is a major i not a minor L
As soon as I have the time to boot into Mint KDE I'll search for it

[Husse]

I am sorry for a late not helpful answer. This is a bug "upstream" and we cannot do much about it.