Mounting USB disk from dolphin fails

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openSUSE 13.2 (Harlequin) (x86_64)

 $ uname -a
Linux addanc 3.16.7-45-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Oct 21 12:20:02 UTC 2016 (f3e3fc4) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Since installing the latest set of updates today (26/10/2016) I am unable to mount my USB disk through dolphin; the volume name appears as usual in dolphin places, but when I click on the name I get the following error message:

 An error occurred while accessing 'Vid', the system responded: An unspecified error has occurred: Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to `/run/media/ajw' failed: Invalid argument

I can manually mount the drive (yawn), but I would prefer to just click on it in dolphin and have mount automatically. Can anybody point me in the right direction?

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It looks like a problem with the recent update.

I have observed the same with a KDE desktop. A manual mount works but not an auto mount.

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Yes, the latest kernel update is broken:
http://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007035

And there are a couple of other threads about this already…

For now the best solution is to revert to the previous kernel and wait for the fixed update that will likely be released in the next days.

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Yes indeed. I saw the sound thread (where rolling back was recommended) and so decided to roll back for that. After the roll back (about 1 minute ago, with a reboot) the USB mounts nominally again.

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I had the same trouble. Then I created in /run/media a folder with my username and mounting worked again (just a workaround).

Similar to the kernel-update from 3.16.7.42 to 3.16.7.45 y noticed that also my USB-soundcard stopped working. There I could not find any workaround yet. So I got temporarly back to kernel 3.16.7.42 until the bug is fixed.

Greetings :wink:

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A workaround for this would be to add your user to the “audio” group.
And then you probably should add it to the “video” group as well.

In the end it’s probably better to stick with the previous kernel for now and wait for a fixed update. The problem has been identified, another update will hopefully be released in the next days.

A fixed kernel is available for testing though (see the bug report), in case you want to try that.

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That is what I will do, Thanks

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Another side effect was the loss of sound; after some Googling I restored this by adding my account to the “audio” group and executing the following command as root:

pam-config --add --systemd

followed by a re-boot.

Thanks for the responses, I wait for an update to restore the normal disk mount and anything else that is broken.

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Yes, because this is also handled via ACLs.

after some Googling I restored this by adding my account to the “audio” group

That’s a workaround for the sound, yes.

and executing the following command as root:

pam-config --add --systemd

followed by a re-boot.

Wouldn’t have been necessary, but shouldn’t hurt either (that’s what’s being done by default anyway).
Doesn’t help at all in this case though.

Thanks for the responses, I wait for an update to restore the normal disk mount and anything else that is broken.

The update has been submitted already, and may be released tomorrow as I heard.

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The updated kernel is in the update repo meanwhile, so update your system and all should work again as before.

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I can confirm the new 3.16.7-48-desktop kernel works for me wrt USB device automount (and also sound works as well).