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". I 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? I do something similar with several data partitions and /var, /srv, /data, /boot and /home/david/pvt all mounted through fstab and so far it's all working. Here is what I have (note that I have device mapper IDs instead of /dev/sd..., but other than that, it should be similar to what you are doing) # DMRAID Changes /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap5 / ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap6 /boot ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap7 /home ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap8 swap swap defaults 0 0 # New Partitions, /srv and /var on separate partitions /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap9 /var ext3 defaults 0 1 /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap10 /srv ext3 defaults 0 1 # New Data Partitions for /data and ~/pvt /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap12 /data ext4 defaults 0 1 /dev/mapper/nvidia_baaccajap11 /home/david/pvt ext4 defaults 0 1 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org