On Saturday 06 February 2010 10:31:22 pm Bob S wrote:
On Friday 05 February 2010 22:28:41 Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2010-02-06 04:12, Bob S wrote:
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??.
swap and fat can also be mounted by label, if you want.
/dev/sdc7 /fat vfat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
/dev/sda1 /windows fat users,gid=users,umask=0002,utf8=true 0 0
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.
That's because you have "users" in the fstab entry. It should be "user", no final "s". The meaning is quite different.
OK Carlos. your input is accepted and noted as an expert in this realm. I question however that these two partitions are mounted and accessible in 10.2 and 11.0 with exactly the same parameters in fstab of those OS's and in 11.2 they are not.
But, willing to try, I changed "users" to "user" and got exactly the same result. Could not mount without the root password. Sooooo....It seems it boiled down to the same result. Works in 10.2 and 11.0 but not in 11.2. the difference being the "Hal Policykit" stuff.
And the entry for sda1 should be "vfat", not "fat".
-- Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 "Emerald" GM (bombadillo))
Hi Bob: Interesting I just stumbled across this thread. I am having a similar problem with 11.3 MS1. I have two external usb disc (1TB with two partitions and a 230GB usb disc) also two DVDs. As root I can access all of them. As user I cannot access any of them after a reboot.) I also have a usb printer and usb keyboard/mouse that work fine for a user. user is a member of groups audio, cdrom, video, and disk. DVD devices (sr0 and 1) are owned by root:cdrom and have permissions of brw-rw----+. getfacl shows correct setting so user should be able to access. I have checked permissions of all associated items in /dev, /proc etc and they are exactly the same on 11.2 and 11.3. Back on 11.1 you had to make sure user was in the above groups. Or modify the policykit org.freedesktop.hal.device-access.policy in /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy. See http://mrdwinz.blogsome.com/2008/12/26/workaround-for-dvd-access-on- opensuse-111/ (note: no wrap on url). The above mentioned policy does not exist in 11.2 or 11.3. There is a storage policy and it is the same on both 11.2 and 11.3. The usb entry in fstab only has noauto and /proc has defaults, no user. Not sure where to change the defaults. Also changing it would effect 11.3 /boot partition as it set defaults where 11.2 does not. My 11.2 system allows the user to access all drives mentioned above without root logging on first. My system is dual boot 11.3 and production 11.2 on separate 320 GB internal drives. My 11.3 system gets a hal error when user tries to access it. I am seeing a hal error in dmesg right after boot (Bug 577489) but I,m not sure if its related? Hope something here helps you. If you find the problem please post results, it may give me an idea, I'm lost. I will open a thread on the prerelease news group also. Good Luck. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org