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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org