I just installed openSuse 11.1 with kde4.1 and noticed some things
working differently from other distros I have used before.
I wanted to mount some partitions so I try dolphin (dolphin has on
default hdds on left side of an open window) and it said:
Code:
An error occured while accessing ‘Volume (ext3)’, the system responded:
org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy:
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed auth_admin_keep_always
← (actoin, result)
does that mean I have to change some settings in openSuse or
hal-system-storage-mount? Im completely lost on that one.
Also when I try to mount normally (from terminal) it will give me
strange results. It just hangs without any feedback, so I have to ctrl+c
it… but that doesnt work, forcing me to close the terminal or open new
tab.
Code:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
^C
Then all is ok except that the mount failed… and this
Code:
$ cd /
$ ls
^C^C^C^C^C^C
Now I cannot find the content of / but I see that there is a /
After that I cannot open anything on the panel (menu, window switcher,
workspaces…)
Hi. Please post the output of “fdisk -l” and “mount” and maybe your
/etc/fstab as well.
When you mount a volume don’t mount it to /mnt but to a subdirectory of
/mnt or anywhere else. You will have to create this directory before
mounting. Then you need to specify the filesystem with -t in the mount
command. For an ext3 partition:
supertimorplusfort;1922684 Wrote:
> Hi. Please post the output of “fdisk -l” and “mount” and maybe your
> /etc/fstab as well.
oh insertCurseWords I forgot to say that the partitions are not
selected to be auto mounted, so by default they should not be in fstab.
fdisk does not work for some reason
Code:
fdisk -l
fdisk: command not found
I did not think of having type as flag :’( but it works perfectly after
making a folder with me as a user and 777 rights, with the standard 731
(rwxr-xr-x ) dolphin didn’t display any files even though I could ls
everything on the terminal.
So thank you very much for your help.
now I just have to find out why it doesnt mount from dolphin (and why I
cannot run dolphin as super user). but Im happy I have always just used
scripts to mount partitions any way
supertimorplusfort;1922718 Wrote:
> Only root can run fdisk on openSUSE. And I think only root can mount
> volumes.
indeed. that is why I was trying to launch dolphin as root.
$ is user and # is root in standard bash prompt isn’t it? I am confused
why this isn’t in opensuse
See ‘sump.org: KDE4: USB stick access fails with
Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy’ (http://www.sump.org/notes/36/)
there’s no need to be root to mount a USB pen drive etc.