KDE 4.4.5's Dolphin 1.4 unable to mount my old IDE/PATA HDD?

[Ant]

Hello.

I switched my desktop manager from Gnome v2.3 and KDE v4.4.5 in my over
year old Debian stable box, but I am having problems accessing my
secondary HDD (SSD is my primary drive) manually after
rebooting/powering up my system. In Gnome v2.3, I can access this old
HDD by entering my sudo password. KDE does not even prompt it when
accessing these drives in its Dolphin as shown in
http://i.imgur.com/tSEbH.gif screen shot/capture. How can I have KDE
connect to it like Gnome does? I do not want to automatically mount it
at system's boot up since it is a temporary drive. Also, I don't want to
go Gnome to mount and then switch to KDE. :(

Thank you in advance. :)
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[J.O. Aho]

On 14/01/13 04:50, Ant wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I switched my desktop manager from Gnome v2.3 and KDE v4.4.5 in my over
> year old Debian stable box, but I am having problems accessing my
> secondary HDD (SSD is my primary drive) manually after
> rebooting/powering up my system. In Gnome v2.3, I can access this old
> HDD by entering my sudo password. KDE does not even prompt it when
> accessing these drives in its Dolphin as shown in
> http://i.imgur.com/tSEbH.gif screen shot/capture. How can I have KDE
> connect to it like Gnome does? I do not want to automatically mount it
> at system's boot up since it is a temporary drive. Also, I don't want to
> go Gnome to mount and then switch to KDE. :(

Maybe you don't have ksudo installed.

Alternative which could be better, is to edit your /etc/fstab and allow
users to mount it, example:


/dev/sda1 /mnt/olddisk xfs noatime,users 0 0

see the users option in the mount option section.


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[Ant]

On 1/13/2013 10:02 PM PT, J.O. Aho typed:

>> I switched my desktop manager from Gnome v2.3 and KDE v4.4.5 in my over
>> year old Debian stable box, but I am having problems accessing my
>> secondary HDD (SSD is my primary drive) manually after
>> rebooting/powering up my system. In Gnome v2.3, I can access this old
>> HDD by entering my sudo password. KDE does not even prompt it when
>> accessing these drives in its Dolphin as shown in
>> http://i.imgur.com/tSEbH.gif screen shot/capture. How can I have KDE
>> connect to it like Gnome does? I do not want to automatically mount it
>> at system's boot up since it is a temporary drive. Also, I don't want to
>> go Gnome to mount and then switch to KDE. :(
>
> Maybe you don't have ksudo installed.

It doesn't seem to exist:
# apt-get install ksudo
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package ksudo
# apt-cache show ksudo
N: Unable to locate package ksudo
E: No packages found
# apt-cache search ksudo
ksudoku - Sudoku puzzle game and solver

# locate ksudo
/home/ant/.local/share/applications/kde4-ksudoku.desktop
/usr/bin/gksudo
/usr/games/ksudoku
/usr/share/app-install/desktop/ksudoku.desktop
/usr/share/app-install/icons/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/applications/kde4/ksudoku.desktop
/usr/share/doc/ksudoku
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/ksudoku
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/ksudoku/common
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/ksudoku/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/ksudoku/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/ksudoku/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/ksudoku/changelog.gz
/usr/share/doc/ksudoku/copyright
/usr/share/doc/ksudoku/html
/usr/share/gnome/applications/kde4/ksudoku.desktop
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/128x128/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/16x16/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/22x22/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/32x32/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/48x48/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/icons/oxygen/64x64/apps/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/4x4.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/4x4.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/Jigsaw.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/Jigsaw.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/Samurai.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/Samurai.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/TinySamurai.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/TinySamurai.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/XSudoku.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/XSudoku.xml
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/ksudokuui.rc
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/128x128
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/128x128/actions/ksudoku.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/ksudoku-jigsaw.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/ksudoku-xsudoku.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/16x16/actions/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/ksudoku-jigsaw.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/ksudoku-ksudoku_16x16.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/ksudoku-ksudoku_25x25.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/ksudoku-ksudoku_4x4.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/22x22/actions/ksudoku-ksudoku_9x9.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/32x32/actions/ksudoku.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/ksudoku-jigsaw.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/ksudoku-ksudoku_16x16.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/ksudoku-roxdoku_5x5x5.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/ksudoku-samurai.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/48x48/actions/ksudoku-xsudoku.png
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/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/icons/oxygen/64x64/actions/ksudoku.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/abstraction.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/abstraction.svg
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/default.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/egyptian_preview.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/ksudoku_egyptian.svg
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/ksudoku_scrible.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/ksudoku/themes/ksudoku_scrible.svg
/usr/share/kde4/config/ksudokurc
/usr/share/man/man1/gksudo.1.gz
/usr/share/menu/ksudoku
/usr/share/pixmaps/ksudoku-16.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/ksudoku.xpm
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ksudoku.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ksudoku.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ksudoku.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/ksudoku.postrm

> Alternative which could be better, is to edit your /etc/fstab and allow
> users to mount it, example:
>
>
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/olddisk xfs noatime,users 0 0
>
> see the users option in the mount option section.

Yeah, I could but that requires eiditng fstab for every drive. I was
hoping it would be automatic like Gnome does.
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[alexd]

Ant (for it is he) wrote:

> It doesn't seem to exist:
> # apt-get install ksudo

Try kdesudo.

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[Ant]

On 1/14/2013 1:14 AM PT, alexd typed:

> Try kdesudo.

I installed it and retried accessing my unmounted partitions, but still
got the same problem. :( Am I supposed to do something else too?
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[John K. Herreshoff]

Ant wrote:

> On 1/14/2013 1:14 AM PT, alexd typed:
>
>> Try kdesudo.
>
> I installed it and retried accessing my unmounted partitions, but still
> got the same problem. :( Am I supposed to do something else too?

Did you take the suggestion about modifying /etc/fstab?

John.

[Ant]

On 1/14/2013 8:43 AM PT, John K. Herreshoff typed:

> Did you take the suggestion about modifying /etc/fstab?

Yeah, but I prefer doing what Gnome does. I'd like to have that manual
mounting in KDE instead of hacking my /etc/fstab every time I add
another internal drive. :(
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[J.O. Aho]

On 15/01/13 15:59, Ant wrote:
> On 1/14/2013 8:43 AM PT, John K. Herreshoff typed:
>
>> Did you take the suggestion about modifying /etc/fstab?
>
> Yeah, but I prefer doing what Gnome does. I'd like to have that manual
> mounting in KDE instead of hacking my /etc/fstab every time I add
> another internal drive. :(

IMHO the gnome2/3 way is insecure, but sure it's more microsoft like.

I doubt you add internal drivers that often and when you add, you still
need to add it to /etc/fstab if you want to be able to mount it into
another place than /media and then you can easily just add the users
option at the same time.

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//Aho

[J.O. Aho]

On 15/01/13 15:59, Ant wrote:

> On 1/14/2013 8:43 AM PT, John K. Herreshoff typed:
>
>> Did you take the suggestion about modifying /etc/fstab?
>
> Yeah, but I prefer doing what Gnome does. I'd like to have that manual
> mounting in KDE instead of hacking my /etc/fstab every time I add
> another internal drive. :(

This can have to do with policyykit, seems like you need the following file:

/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-filesystem-mount-system-internal.pkla

[Mount a system-internal device] Identity=*
Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
ResultActive=yes


Also you need to see to that policykit is installed and the service
enabled, also you need to see to that the kde has polkit-kde-kcmodules
(may have a different package name in suse).

Start with looking for those policykit things, and if all are in place
and running, then look at the policykit policy file.


--

//Aho

[Ant]

> >> Did you take the suggestion about modifying /etc/fstab?
> >
> > Yeah, but I prefer doing what Gnome does. I'd like to have that manual
> > mounting in KDE instead of hacking my /etc/fstab every time I add
> > another internal drive. :(

> IMHO the gnome2/3 way is insecure, but sure it's more microsoft like.

> I doubt you add internal drivers that often and when you add, you still
> need to add it to /etc/fstab if you want to be able to mount it into
> another place than /media and then you can easily just add the users
> option at the same time.

How does Gnome automount without the need of /etc/fstab then?
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[Ant]

> >> Did you take the suggestion about modifying /etc/fstab?
> >
> > Yeah, but I prefer doing what Gnome does. I'd like to have that manual
> > mounting in KDE instead of hacking my /etc/fstab every time I add
> > another internal drive. :(

> This can have to do with policyykit, seems like you need the following file:

> /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-filesystem-mount-system-internal.pkla

I searched:
$ locate polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1
/etc/pam.d/polkit-1
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d
/etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/10-vendor.d
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/20-org.d
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/30-site.d
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority/90-mandatory.d
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-debian-sudo.conf
/etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d/50-nullbackend.conf
/usr/lib/polkit-1
/usr/lib/polkit-1/extensions
/usr/lib/polkit-1/extensions/libnullbackend.so
/usr/lib/polkit-1/extensions/libpkexec-action-lookup.so
/usr/lib/polkit-1/extensions/libudisks-action-lookup.so
/usr/share/polkit-1
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/com.hp.hplip.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/gdm.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.apt.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.debian.aptxapianindex.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.NetworkManager.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.consolekit.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.modem-manager.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.network-manager-settings.system.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.upower.qos.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.clockapplet.mechanism.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.cpufreqselector.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gconf.defaults.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.power.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.fontinst.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.kcontrol.k3bsetup.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmclock.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmremotewidgets.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.ksysguard.processlisthelper.policy
/var/lib/polkit-1

$ ls -all /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 7 2011 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Nov 24 2011 ..

> [Mount a system-internal device] Identity=*
> Action=org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
> ResultActive=yes

Where does this go?

> Also you need to see to that policykit is installed and the service
> enabled, also you need to see to that the kde has polkit-kde-kcmodules
> (may have a different package name in suse).

> Start with looking for those policykit things, and if all are in place
> and running, then look at the policykit policy file.

$ locate policykit
/usr/lib/policykit-1
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkit-agent-helper-1
/usr/lib/policykit-1/polkitd
/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/policykit1.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/aptdaemon/policykit1.pyc
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1/copyright
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome/NEWS.gz
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome/README
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome/TODO
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome/changelog.Debian.gz
/usr/share/doc/policykit-1-gnome/copyright
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.policykit.policy
/usr/share/pyshared/aptdaemon/policykit1.py
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1-gnome.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1-gnome.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1-gnome.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1.conffiles
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1.list
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1.md5sums
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1.postinst
/var/lib/dpkg/info/policykit-1.prerm

$ apt-cache show policykit
N: Unable to locate package policykit
E: No packages found
ant@ANTian:~/Downloads$ apt-cache search policykit
aptdaemon - transaction based package management service
gconf-defaults-service - GNOME configuration database system (system
defaults service)
gksu-polkit - command line utility to run programs as root
libgksu-polkit-dev - simple gobject-based API to run programs as root
(development files)
libpolkit-gtk-1-0 - PolicyKit GTK+ API
libpolkit-gtk-1-dev - PolicyKit GTK+ API - development files
policykit-1-gnome - GNOME authentication agent for PolicyKit-1
libpolkit-agent-1-0 - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API
libpolkit-agent-1-dev - PolicyKit Authentication Agent API - development
files
libpolkit-backend-1-0 - PolicyKit backend API
libpolkit-backend-1-dev - PolicyKit backend API - development files
libpolkit-gobject-1-0 - PolicyKit Authorization API
libpolkit-gobject-1-dev - PolicyKit Authorization API - development
files
policykit-1-doc - documentation for PolicyKit-1
policykit-1 - framework for managing administrative policies and
privileges
polkit-kde-1 - KDE dialogs for PolicyKit
libpolkit-qt-1-0 - PolicyKit-qt-1 library
libpolkit-qt-1-dev - PolicyKit-qt-1 development files
udisks-doc - abstraction for enumerating block devices - documentation
udisks - abstraction for enumerating block devices
libupower-glib-dev - abstraction for power management - development
files
libupower-glib1 - abstraction for power management - shared library
upower-doc - abstraction for power management - documentation
upower - abstraction for power management
cups-pk-helper - PolicyKit helper to configure cups with fine-grained
privileges
network-manager - network management framework (daemon and userspace
tools)
$ apt-cache search policykit |grep kde
polkit-kde-1 - KDE dialogs for PolicyKit
$ apt-cache show polkit-kde-kcmodules
N: Unable to locate package polkit-kde-kcmodules
E: No packages found

http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=polkit-kde-kcmodules&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all
says this package does not exist. Hmm!

# apt-get install polkit-kde-1

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done

polkit-kde-1 is already the newest version.
polkit-kde-1 set to manually installed.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

:/

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[Peter Vollebregt]

On 01/14/2013 04:50 AM, Ant wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I switched my desktop manager from Gnome v2.3 and KDE v4.4.5 in my over
> year old Debian stable box, but I am having problems accessing my
> secondary HDD (SSD is my primary drive) manually after
> rebooting/powering up my system. In Gnome v2.3, I can access this old
> HDD by entering my sudo password. KDE does not even prompt it when
> accessing these drives in its Dolphin as shown in
> http://i.imgur.com/tSEbH.gif screen shot/capture. How can I have KDE
> connect to it like Gnome does?

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172023

pmount can help?

>
> Thank you in advance. :)

:-(