I have got unmount error when trying to unmount flash card from mount plasmoid or dolphin safe remove. This is mostly happens when 2 kde user session started at parallel. Rarery it happens for single user session Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: On my pc it's reproduces this way almost always (4 of 5 times): 0.Run your kde session 1.Insert flash card 2.with ctrl-alt-ins start you use existing session of different user 3.Open dolphin for this user and click on flash icon to mount it (or use plasmoid for this) 4.Try to unmount flash then through dolphin right-click on safely-remove ->this is the the place where error comes. Actual Results: 1. In dolphin I see the error message . org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others no <-- (privilege,result) /var/log/messages and .Xsession-erros do not product any valuable info 2. Through unmount plasmoid plasma just stucks and only restart helps. Expected Results: unmount should work normally when 2 users are logged on What I already did is 1. modified /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and added : <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*"> <return result="yes"/> </match> 2.Added new policy to /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy , which looks like: <action id="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others"> <description>Unmount file systems mounted by other users.</description> <message>System policy prevents unmounting media mounted by other users</message> <defaults> <allow_inactive>no</allow_inactive> <allow_active>yes</allow_active> </defaults> </action> but it does not solve the problem. output of polkit-action for both users looks: geonix@geonix-laptop /media $ polkit-action org.freedesktop.policykit.read org.freedesktop.policykit.revoke org.freedesktop.policykit.grant org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others org.freedesktop.hal.storage.eject org.freedesktop.hal.storage.crypto-setup I have the versions: sys-auth/policykit-0.9 sys-apps/hal-0.5.11-r8 kde 4.2.1 QT 4.5 I would be glad for any workaround of solution for this issue
Created attachment 185354 [details] This is how the error looks in dolphin
Hi Sergei, I should close this ticket as invalid because you're not using gentoo's default hal (gentoo's hal doesn't have policykit enabled). Could you please provide emerge --info as well?
Hi Robert, I'am using default gentoo hal (and do not use policykit as I know now :).I mentioned Policykit things because googling pointed me to the similar problems caused to policykit usage
here is my emerge --info Portage 2.2_rc23 (default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.3.3, glibc-2.9_p20081201-r2, 2.6.28-gentoo-r3 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r3-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_T5500_@_1.66GHz-with-glibc2.2.5 Timestamp of tree: Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:30:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p10-r1 dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7-r1, 2.1.7 dev-lang/python: 2.5.4-r2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r8 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.3 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.0 sys-apps/openrc: 0.4.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.19.51.0.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6a virtual/os-headers: 2.6.28-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/4.2/env /usr/kde/4.2/share/config /usr/kde/4.2/shutdown /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=native -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs digest distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer parallel-fetch prelink preserve-libs protect-owned sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ds.karen.hj.se/gentoo/ http://ftp.linux.ee/pub/gentoo/distfiles/ http://mirror.gentoo.no/ http://mirror.cambrium.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo/ http://ftp.ds.karen.hj.se/gentoo/" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/data/temp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="7zip X a52 aac acl acpi aiglx alsa amd64 amr apache2 archive asf async automount avahi bluetooth branding bzip2 c++ cairo cdr chroot cjk cli cpudetection cracklib curl dbus device-mapper divx4linux dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread dxr2 dxr3 emboss encode evo exo fam fb fbcondecor ffmpeg firefox fortran freetype fuse gdbm gif glib glitz gpm hal hashstyle iconv imagemagick imap ipwxgtk1 isdnlog ithreads javascript jpeg kde kdeenablefinal kdeprefix kdexdeltas kipi ldap libnotify linuxthreads-tls mad mikmod mmap mmx mmxext mng mp3 mp4 mpeg mplayer mudflap multilib musepack ncurses network newspr nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin nv nvidia oggopengl openmp pam panel-plugin pcre pdf perl plasma png posix ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 quicktime rar readline reflection samba sdl session smb smbmount smp sndfile spl sse sse2sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs syslog tcpd threads thunar-vfs tiff truetype unicode usb userlocales utf utf8 vorbis wavpack wma wma123 xcb xcomposite xforms xine xinerama xml xorg xulrunner xv xvid xvmc zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel usb-audio" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse synaptics evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Also I have hal build with the following options: USE="X acpi crypt debug disk-partition laptop -apm-dell -doc (-selinux)" 0 kB
hmm.. that's strange. I've checked hal ebuild and policykit is disabled by default. Also polkit-action | grep hal give me nothing. Can you please try to reisntall your hal and try again than? It shouldn't install any PK files and should use group based authentication. Also make sure you're in plugdev group. Thanks, Rob
ok , I reinstalled hal and removed all policy kit modifications I mentioned in description. Now polkit-action returns org.freedesktop.policykit.read org.freedesktop.policykit.revoke org.freedesktop.policykit.grant org.freedesktop.policykit.modify-defaults Also I have chechked : both users are in plugdev group. Could I use some kind of tracing or debug messages?Hal do not have any such use flags
Well I understand it still doesn't work yet right? Try reinstalling solid. Restart kde and try if it works. R
Done with reinstalling solid - it still does not work also reinstalled dolphin with use flag debug - no any info displayed when error appears btw for single user session i also could repruduce this issue
Also I would add that it's purely kde umount bug , because pumount from console works just ok
I was trying to find more information about it, but so far without a success. On my own setup I use policykit (custom ebuild) for hal. All works fine. I will keep looking and if I find some clues about this problem. Thanks, Rob
Thanks, I would be glad also to try your custom ebuild
Ok , I changed following line in the hal ebuild to enable policy kit --enable-policy-kit \ Now umount works fine.For me it's ok now but of course for gentoo it sounds like a workaround at a moment
(In reply to comment #13) > Ok , I changed following line in the hal ebuild to enable policy kit > --enable-policy-kit \ > Now umount works fine.For me it's ok now > but of course for gentoo it sounds like a workaround at a moment > Currently it is a workaround. I'm working on bringing policykit support for all packages - which hopefully should eliminate problems like this in the future. For now I will change this bug status for LATER, as it works for you and more proper solution should be introduced once policykit gets better support.
sounds ok for me. thanks for help :)
bugzie.
I tested the connecting/disconnecting in 4.3.0 and looks like our polkit+hal looks fine again :]
yep, I can confirm that in kde 4.3 connect/disconnect works fine. I'am using sys-apps/hal-0.5.13-r2 with policykit enabled use flag
