On Monday 09 September 2019 13.58:29 Michele Calgaro via trinity-users wrote:
Hi Thierry, a few questions to gather further info.
- do you have policykit installed? I guess so, if you say some partitions
on external drives can be mounted.
Is installed
- Does the disk have a valid partition
in sdg1?
Yes. ext4, mbr
- is the disk in /etc/fstab?
No
- what command do you use to mount the partition from CLI?
mount /dev/sdx /<mount directory>. As root. sdx is usually sdg or sdi, depending on other connected drives.
- if you retry from Konqueror, do you have a failure again?
I don't see what you want me to do. The error message appears when I plug in / switch on the external drive. If/when it works the drive gets mounted on /media/<user>/<drive> and konqueror opens a window on its content. If/when it fails nothing is mounted and I can't do it from Konqueror (or I don't know I can :).
- what does "fdisk -l /dev/sdg" or "gdisk -l /dev/sdg" prints?
root@junior:/home/thierry# fdisk -l /dev/sdg Disk /dev/sdg: 931.5 GiB, 1000204886016 bytes, 1953525168 sectors Disk model: HD103SI Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xb6bc5d97
Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdg1 63 1953520064 1953520002 931.5G 83 Linux
root@junior:/home/thierry# gdisk -l /dev/sdg GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.3
Partition table scan: MBR: MBR only BSD: not present APM: not present GPT: not present
*************************************************************** Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format in memory. ***************************************************************
Disk /dev/sdg: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB Model: HD103SI Sector size (logical/physical): 512/512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 88036014-EE81-4D56-92FA-6212E6693E3C Partition table holds up to 128 entries Main partition table begins at sector 2 and ends at sector 33 First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 5099 sectors (2.5 MiB)
Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name 1 63 1953520064 931.5 GiB 8300 Linux filesystem
Note that after running fdisk -l nothing happens, while after running gdisk the drive got mounted!
- what happens if you try as root instead of normal user?
It found the drive OK, but did not open Konqueror, instead asked what to do (attachment).
Additionally, do you have d-feet installed on your computer? That could help in troubleshooting since I see in your screenshot the error is reported by udisks2 dbus call.
I did not, I have now.
Cheers Michele
Also, I've noticed that "Safely remove" as user causes unmounting and immediate re-mounting, "unmount" correctly unmounts.
As root both work as expected.
Thanks,
Thierry
