** Description changed: - Binary package hint: hal - - I have posted about this in bug 115768 as well and will copy most of - what I've written there. - - I am using the latest Kubuntu 7.10 (which by now should be all but - properly released) with KDE 3.5.7: - - Linux thehostname 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 - i686 GNU/Linux - - Upon plugging in an external, removable SATA (eSATA) hard disk formatted - with Ext3 I get the following messages in .xsession-errors: - - kded: ERROR: mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_6591d79f_e4db_4fb6_9edd_fdc18d5a9731: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy - hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000 - kded: ERROR: mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_6591d79f_e4db_4fb6_9edd_fdc18d5a9731 returned hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000 - - Dolphin (D3lphin) says "hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid 1000", too. - - Manually issuing "pmount /dev/sdb1 /media/mydisk" says: - - Error: device /dev/sdb1 is not removable - - Which is consistent with the lshal output saying "storage.removable = - false (bool)" for that disk. - - Manually mounting (i.e. with mount, not pmount) works fine. Creating an - entry in /etc/fstab and mounting via that works fine, too, both as a - regular user and as root. - - I am not sure what exactly the underlying problem is, but I suspect that - noone has yet thought of describing a policy for removeable, external - SATA disks (formatted Ext3)? What does it take to write a suitable - policy? This also seems to be purely a HAL problem, not KDE-, kernel- or - even hardware-related. I am attaching the output of lshal, hald, dmesg, - etc as required by https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices as - well. + eSATA disks are are not auto mounted when plugged in. This is because + udisks uses a heuristic to decide if it should auto mount a drive. The + heuristic is motivated by the desire to not auto mount internal + disks/partitions that belong to other operating systems. The heuristic + currently makes the assumption that disks connected via a usb bus are + external, and disks connected with other buses ( sata, scsi ) are + internal, and thus does not mount them. This heuristic is inherently + unreliable as usb disks can potentially be internal, and sas/sata disks + can be external. Thus, the heuristic needs to be disabled, and all + unknown disks need to be auto mounted. Disks detected but left + unconfigured at install time should have entries in /etc/fstab set to + noauto to prevent their being auto mounted.
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