When I connect usb storage device like pendrive or harddisk root's password request pop up. When I try to unmount pendrive using nautilus eject icon request for root's password pop up and notification that device is busy is displayed. With sys-apps/dbus-1.8.16 devices are mounted and unmounted automatically without any prompts.
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What udisks versions do you have installed?
$ qlist -Iv udisk sys-fs/udisks-2.1.4
I am suffering this bug (I didn't notice it earlier :S) https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94508 Maybe it's also showing in your case in this way, I mean, maybe there are leftover processes of other users running in your system and causing this behavior
I'am only user of this PC but if you ask about users like gdm I check and in both dbus version similar number of processes left alter logout and gdm service stop. I'am trying to find some differences how things work with both versions of dbus and I found something like this (I'm no expert, just trying different things) **sys-apps/dbus-1.8.16** $ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 ** (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:3167): WARNING **: Unable to register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject Cannot register authentication agent: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: An authentication agent already exists for the given subject **sys-apps/dbus-1.10.6 ** $ /usr/libexec/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:2499): polkit-gnome-1-WARNING **: Unable to determine the session we are in: No session for pid 2499
Maybe our /etc/pam.d/gdm-launch-environment is not complete and should have something like: http://askubuntu.com/questions/303309/cant-mount-usb-devices-shut-down-etc-as-a-user/375346#375346 :/
Please check https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1187153#p1187153 I did what opensrcrox suggested with different group name (I used wheel) and now I'am able to plug pendrive and it it mounted without any password prompt.
It's strange we haven't seen that problem before as we haven't change the polkit rules for a long long time :/
A familiar hit this problem too... but he solved it supposedly rebuilding all udisks slots :| (that is even more strange, but if that works). I am hesitant to touch much that rules, we must ensure we don't get affected by bug 401513 again with that changes
Same issue on Systemd+Xfce. If I try to mount an external disk I get the next message in journalctl: polkitd[2070] Operator of unix-session:6 successfully authenticated as unix-user:root to gain TEMPORARY authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat for system-bus-name::1.82 [/usr/libexec/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor] (owned by unix-user:myuser) or: polkitd[1834]: Operator of unix-session:1 FAILED to authenticate to gain authorization for action org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-other-seat for system-bus-name::1.112 [/usr/libexec/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor] (owned by unix-user:myuser) Seems the polkit rule is fine, but the (systemd? dbus? udisks?) don't detect the current session and try to authentificate as "other-seat" action. On systemd I cannot provide ck-list-sessions, on my other openrc/consolekit system there is no issue.
To work in conjunction with the dbus-user-session, udisks needs the following change: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89501 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cgit/?url=udisks/commit/&id=b208be44157253005ac053aeebe13e234a3ac291 it's part of >=sys-fs/udisks-2.1.6 https://cgit.freedesktop.org/cgit/?url=udisks/tree/NEWS#n88
Latest update of sys-apps/dbus (1.10.8-r1) solved this issue.
This concrete issue was fixed in udisks side
