Re: [gentoo-user] can not mount USB stick as user

[Joseph]

On 02/05/14 11:46, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote:
>On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:32 AM, Joseph <syscon780@×××××.com> wrote:
>> Which program is responsible for mounting USB stick on XFCE4?
>>
>> After enable "systemd" flag in make.conf USE=
>> the following packages were rebuild:
>> sys-apps/busybox
>> sys-apps/dbus
>> sys-auth/pambase
>> sys-auth/polkit
>> sys-fs/udisks
>> sys-power/upower
>> gnome-base/gvfs
>>
>> But now I have a BIG problem, I can not mount USB stick at all as user (only
>> as root).
>> Eject doesn't work either.
>
>I don't know the answer to your question, since I don't use Xfce, but
>inside xfce-base/*, but I only see thunar depending on udisks, and
>then only with the udev USE flag activated (which is automatic when
>using any of the desktop profiles, I believe). Without looking at the
>code of Xfce, I can only guess that Thunar handles the mounting of
>external devices.
>
>Let me ask you a few questions:
>
>1. Before switching to systemd, how did you mounted the stick; it was
>automatic (it just appeared in Thunar), or you had to do something?

When I insert the USB stick, an icon automatically appears on a desktop so I right click on it an "mount" it.
But after doing these changes it keep telling me I'm "Not authorized to perform the operation" (mount it or eject the USB).

>
>2. When you say that you can mount it only as root, you mean inside a
>Xfce session as root?

To mount the USB I have to login as root, from command line.

>
>3. The following line is in /etc/pam.d/system-auth?
>
>   -session        optional        pam_systemd.so

Yes, I have this line in in /etc/pam.d/system-auth

>
>4. Using systemd is more than just emerging it; you need to change
>your init= line in grub-legacy or GRUB2 and reboot. The contents of
>/proc/1/comm is "systemd"?

I only have this:
cat /proc/1/comm
init

>
>5. If the contents of /proc/1/comm is "systemd", could you please show
>us the output from the following commands when inside your Xfce
>session (as your normal user):
>
>   • systemctl --all --full
>   • loginctl (annotate your-session [first column] and your-seat [last column])
>   • loginctl seat-status your-seat
>   • loginctl session-status your-session
>   • loginctl user-status your-user
>
>Regards.
>--
>Canek Peláez Valdés
>Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación
>Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

systemctl --all --full
Failed to get D-Bus connection: No connection to service manager.

loginctl
Failed to issue method call: Launch helper exited with unknown return code 1

-- 
Joseph