[gentoo-user] Unable to mount USB sticks using file manager

[Mick]

Hi All,

I'm not sure what I am missing on a laptop to be able to mount USB sticks as 
plain user.  This laptop has been built with a no-multilib profile.  The users 
are members of the plugdev group.

I don't want to create an fstab entry to be able to do this, because various 
USB sticks are being plugged in at any time.  In dolphin I get this error 
reported:

"An error occurred while accessing '512MB', the system responded:  An 
unspecified error has occurred:  Not authorized to perform operation."

This laptop is using x11-wm/enlightenment-0.20.6, just like other laptops 
which have no problem mounting USB sticks using a file manager.  The only 
difference being other laptops have multilib profiles.

When I plug in a USB disk I get:
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Nov 26 18:08:39 [dbus] [system] Activating service 
name='org.freedesktop.UDisks2' (using servicehelper)
Nov 26 18:08:39 [udisksd] udisks daemon version 2.1.7 starting
Nov 26 18:08:39 [dbus] [system] Successfully activated service 
'org.freedesktop.UDisks2'
Nov 26 18:08:39 [udisksd] Acquired the name org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the 
system message bus
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.236065] usb 2-1: new high-speed USB device 
number 3 using ehci-pci
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.354981] usb 2-1: New USB device found, 
idVendor=1516, idProduct=8628
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.354994] usb 2-1: New USB device strings: 
Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.355001] usb 2-1: Product: Gizmo! 
overdrive505724545
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.355073] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: Crucial
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.355083] usb 2-1: SerialNumber: 505724545
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.355970] usb-storage 2-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage 
device detected
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.357622] scsi host6: usb-storage 2-1:1.0
Nov 26 18:09:11 [kernel] [  950.389457] usbcore: registered new interface 
driver uas
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.360232] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     
Crucial  Gizmo! overdrive 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.360677] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 
type 0
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.363207] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 997888 512-byte 
logical blocks: (511 MB/487 MiB)
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.365780] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.366583] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page 
found
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.366586] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive 
cache: write through
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.370104]  sdb:
Nov 26 18:09:12 [kernel] [  951.372102] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI 
removable disk
Nov 26 18:10:01 [CROND] (root) CMD (test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && 
/usr/sbin/run-crons)
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Udisks shows this when I plug in the USB stick:
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$ udisksctl monitor
Monitoring the udisks daemon. Press Ctrl+C to exit.
18:24:41.715: The udisks-daemon is running (name-owner :1.11).
18:24:52.659: Added 
/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Crucial_Gizmo_21_overdrive_505724545
  org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive:
    CanPowerOff:                true
    Configuration:              {}
    ConnectionBus:              usb
    Ejectable:                  true
    Id:                         Crucial-Gizmo!-overdrive-505724545
    Media:                      
    MediaAvailable:             true
    MediaChangeDetected:        true
    MediaCompatibility:         
    MediaRemovable:             true
    Model:                      Gizmo! overdrive
    Optical:                    false
    OpticalBlank:               false
    OpticalNumAudioTracks:      0
    OpticalNumDataTracks:       0
    OpticalNumSessions:         0
    OpticalNumTracks:           0
    Removable:                  true
    Revision:                   1.00
    RotationRate:               -1
    Seat:                       seat0
    Serial:                     505724545
    SiblingId:                  
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb2/2-1/2-1:1.0
    Size:                       510918656
    SortKey:                    01hotplug/1480184692658374
    TimeDetected:               1480184692658374
    TimeMediaDetected:          1480184692658374
    Vendor:                     Crucial
    WWN:                        
18:24:52.661: Added /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb
  org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block:
    Configuration:              []
    CryptoBackingDevice:        '/'
    Device:                     /dev/sdb
    DeviceNumber:               2064
    Drive:                      
'/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/Crucial_Gizmo_21_overdrive_505724545'
    HintAuto:                   true
    HintIconName:               
    HintIgnore:                 false
    HintName:                   
    HintPartitionable:          true
    HintSymbolicIconName:       
    HintSystem:                 false
    Id:                         by-uuid-289E-047D
    IdLabel:                    512MB
    IdType:                     vfat
    IdUUID:                     289E-047D
    IdUsage:                    filesystem
    IdVersion:                  FAT16
    MDRaid:                     '/'
    MDRaidMember:               '/'
    PreferredDevice:            /dev/sdb
    ReadOnly:                   false
    Size:                       510918656
    Symlinks:                   /dev/disk/by-id/usb-
Crucial_Gizmo__overdrive_505724545-0:0
                                /dev/disk/by-label/512MB
                                /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:00:1d.7-
usb-0:1:1.0-scsi-0:0:0:0
                                /dev/disk/by-uuid/289E-047D
  org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem:
    MountPoints:        
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Trying to mount the USB by using the enlightenment file manager or dolphin, 
does not generate anything in udisksctl or in the logs ...

Any ideas? 
-- 
Regards,
Mick