So I recently upgraded to 13.1. I then tried to upgrade to 13.2, but ran into some
serious problems so I have backed off to 13.1. But I have still run into two funnies
with 13.1 (I’m running KDE4)…
Mounting external USB devices
In the Device Notifier, I have gone into Device Notifier Settings, and in “Settings”
have chosen “Removable Devices only” and in “Removable Devices” I have checked
Enable automatic mounting of removable media" and “Automatically mount removable
media when attached”.
So when I stick in a USB device the device notifier pops up and I click on “Open with
File Manager” and NOTHING happens – the device doesn’t show up when I do a df
nor does it show up in Dolphin. So I can’t read or write any external USB
device. This used to work fine in 12.2 – an external USB device would just get mounted.
Updates
When there are system updates, the software updater pops up to tell me. But if I
click on install, nothing happens because I’m not logged in as root. I have to log out and
log back in as root before I can do the update. In 12.2, I was asked for the root password
and the updater would run while I stayed logged in. Having to log out to do the update
is a bit of a pain.
logging in as root in a graphical interface? the results are unpredictable and is advised all over as a no-no.
This is working just fine for me in 13.1(mounting usb’s and updates don’t need a root password). Did I set something to get over that? I don’t recall, sorry.
The mounted usb will be located under /var/run/media/your_user/usb_mount_name.
In dolphin will automatically be added on the left side of the screen under Devices. Maybe you missed it there?or maybe something is wrong in your os? hopefully not from root log into graphical interface.
I’m running two Suse 13.1 systems. One on my desktop which was updated
and one on my laptop which was a full install. I have NO problems with USB
drives on my laptop (the full install). The problem I’m having with USB drives
is only on my desktop. I’ve looked at the settings in the device notifier and
they are the same in both cases. It simply ignores the command on the
desktop machine and nothing gets mounted.
As to the updater – it’s a graphics window (KDE4 in this case) icon. If I click
on it and try to hit the INSTALL button while logged on as myself, the install
fails because I’m not root. The only way to get to the INSTALL button with
root privledges is to log on to KDE as root as far as I can see.
Starting with 13.1 (I think), “systemd” runs a user manager. And authentication depends on that user manager.
You do some updates. One of the updates is to “systemd”. So “systemd” is restarted. But the systemd user manager process is not restarted, so you lose the communication needed for some kinds of authentication. Rebooting should fix that.
If reboot helps here, maybe it also helps with the USB problem (but not sure on that).
No – I’ve rebooted a couple of times and it doesn’t help. I’ve run into more serious problems though.
I seem to now be in a state where it sees all the /home directories as read only. They aren’t, of course
but the system claims they are. I think it is time to backup /home and do a full, clean install
of 13.1.
what are the right on /home directory? who owns it now? is it the user or something else? maybe running the comand: ls -lrt /home could give us some info.
It would seem that something went wrong when you moved from 12.2 to 13.1, failed with 13.2, then “backed off” to 13.1.
(You did not say how you performed the moves up, nor what you did to “back off” from 13.2, which could also supply clues.)
Somewhere along the way, something became corrupted, or you have the possibility of pieces of all 3 systems clinging on somewhere.
I would suggest your most stable and successfull repair would be to restore your 12.2 from your backup images, then follow an upgrade path from 12.2 to 12.3, install all patches & updates, then upgrade from 12.3 to 13.1. It would not hurt to do a full backup of 12.3 after all the updates before continuing on to 13.1, to save some work if anything goes wrong.