After an upgrade and rebooting, when I attempted to mount the three external partitions I always use with any OS on this desktop computer with an Intel CPU, I get the following error message:
Authorization Failed for Some Reason. Not authorized to perform operation.
Also, I was unable to sudo. (I had made no changes to that). No password would work.
So I logged out and logged in as root, then added the user dhinds to the disks group. But that didn't work when I logged back in. Then I added dhinds to the root, adm and fuse groups.
But that didn't help. I still can't mount those partitions as the user (only as root).
I did change the dhinds password though with no problems (if I don't forget it).
Any suggestions?
TIA
Please, always provide minimum info, such as:
- edition (stable or testing)
- arch (32 or 64 bit)
- desktop
Quote from: pavroo on August 06, 2017, 06:52:36 PM
Please, always provide minimum info, such as:
- edition (stable or testing)
- arch (32 or 64 bit)
- desktop
Sorry about that.
A brand new and updated installation of Sparky Testing (that's all I use) LXQt, 64 bit.
(Everything was working fine).
/, /home (both ext4) and Swap Partitions
Running On Gigabyte X58 Motherboard w/ a 1st Gen i7 CPU and 16 GB of DDR3 RAM
Could this be an fstab problem?
I don't think so.
The latest LXQt provided a new authentication mechanism.
Make sure you have installed 'lxqt-policykit' package.
If you installed it right now, have to reboot.
Quote from: pavroo on August 07, 2017, 07:56:03 PM
I don't think so.
The latest LXQt provided a new authentication mechanism.
Make sure you have installed 'lxqt-policykit' package.
If you installed it right now, have to reboot.
I'll boot into Sparky LXQt now and check.
Quote from: pavroo on August 07, 2017, 07:56:03 PM
The latest LXQt provided a new authentication mechanism.
Make sure you have installed 'lxqt-policykit' package.
If you installed it right now, have to reboot.
First I'm doing an apt full-upgrade --no-install-recommends -y --force-yes
System is now up to date.
lxqt-policykit is already installed.
I reinstalled it and will now reboot.
(Maybe I should have removed it and then reinstalled it).
I noticed that synaptic would not open at first via the lxqt panel menu. (It too said "Authorization failed for some reason"). I had to open a terminal and used sudo (which now has a stronger password).
The problem persists unchanged, after rebooting
Do you suggest I remove lxqt-policykit or remove lxqt-policykit completely, then reinstall it, or ??
TIA
Check does the policykit work:
pidof lxqt-policykit-agent
If the output is empty, run it:
lxqt-policykit-agent
Then check again.
If not empty now, try to mount an external disk.
Somebody posted the same problem on our Polish forums too.
It's already fixed (hope so), so:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot
Quote from: pavroo on August 08, 2017, 01:50:26 PM
Check does the policykit work:
pidof lxqt-policykit-agent
Nothing came back.
Quote from: pavroo on August 08, 2017, 01:50:26 PM
If the output is empty, run it:
lxqt-policykit-agent
Then check again.
If not empty now, try to mount an external disk.
This is the result:
lxqt-policykit-agent:2734): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
New PolkitAgentListener 0x55f2e8f87f00
Adding new listener PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x7ffd4b67dcd0) for 0x55f2e8f87f00
** (lxqt-policykit-agent:2734): 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"
Quote from: pavroo on August 08, 2017, 06:59:17 PM
Somebody posted the same problem on our Polish forums too.
It's already fixed (hope so), so:
sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade
sudo reboot
Now I'll try that
Yes, that did the trick.
Good job, pavroo