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[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 05 February 2010 03:54:40 David C. Rankin wrote:
> On 02/04/2010 11:11 PM, Bob S wrote:
> > Hello SuSE people.
> >
> > Running 11.2 with KDE4.3.5.  I have several different OS's on my machine
> > and several different partitions which are common to them all.
> > ie. /datastorage, /mediastorage, /backup etc which I can access from each
> > OS. Each of those are listed in my 11.2 fstab. I had the same setup when
> > I tried 11.1.
> >
> > I am unable to mount them in 11.2 getting the message "Hal  Device Volume
> > Permission denied.  /dev/hda? is listed in fstab but refuses to mount"
David> > was able to get around that in 11.1 (something aboutPolicy Kit) but
> > darned if I can remember what it was that I did.
> >
> > Would some kind soul out there jog the gray matter and put me on the
> > right track?
> >
> > Bob S
>
> Bob,
>
>       hal/dbus/PolicyKit has been broken so many times it is hard to keep 
> track.
> I have experienced the denials many times and the fixes work until the next
> set of updates and then things go downhill again. The system is very
> finicky (that's a technical term).
>
>       If they are in your fstab, the I can't see how you are getting 
> permission
> denied errors unless you have found a way to boot through the init process
> as a regular user (which makes no sense itself). What do your fstab entries
> look like?
David,

As per my original post in the second paragraph above, that is the message I 
get. However, nothing in my fstab is /dev/hd? They are all mounted by Label 
as per below except for two fat partitions and swap which are designated 
as /dev/sd??.

LABEL=11.2           /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
LABEL=11.2home       /home                ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=11.2tmp        /tmp                 ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=11.2usr        /usr                 ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=11.2var        /var                 ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=11.0           /                    ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 1
LABEL=11.0home       /11.0home            ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=11.0var        /11.0var             ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
LABEL=11.0tmp        /11.0tmp             ext3       acl,user_xattr        1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_ST3250824AS_4ND4ZTYJ-part3 swap                 swap  
     
defaults              0 0
LABEL=10.2           /10.2                ext3       defaults              1 2
LABEL=10.2home       /10.2home            ext3       defaults              1 2
LABEL=10.2tmp        /10.2tmp             ext3       defaults              1 2
LABEL=10.2var        /10.2var             ext3       defaults              1 2
LABEL=backup         /backup              ext3       defaults              1 2
LABEL=datastorage    /datastorage         ext3       defaults              1 2
/dev/sdc7      /fat        vfat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
LABEL=mediadata      /mediadata           ext3       defaults              1 2
LABEL=storage        /storage             ext3       defaults              1 2
/dev/sda1       /windows    fat       users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
LABEL=workspace      /workspace           ext3       defaults              1 2
proc                 /proc                proc       defaults              0 0
sysfs                /sys                 sysfs      noauto                0 0
debugfs              /sys/kernel/debug    debugfs    noauto                0 0
usbfs                /proc/bus/usb        usbfs      noauto                0 0
devpts               /dev/pts             devpts     mode=0620,gid=5       0 0

For more info to think about. All of the partitions in the fstab show up in 
that left sidebar in Dolphin. That is where I click on them to open them and 
get the error message. They don't show up in the main root directory in 
Konqueror at all.

A little more investigation shows I can open the two fat partitions (/dev/sda1 
& /dev/sdc7) but have to give the root password to Dolphin. Getting more 
curious I open the partitioner and ????? my three drives are designated hda, 
and hdb (both ide) and sde !!! (sata) And, yes. the drives I can't mount have 
the little asterisk after them. The note in the "Help" menu mentions 
something about no-auto or automount, but that is not my case as seen in the 
fstab above. My 10.2 and 11.0 attributes are exactly like the 11.2 one. So 
why won't they mount and show up in the "/" directory like the other OS's?

Why oh why? Why must this be so convuluted and complicated when it all used to 
just work?

Bob S
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