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Fedora 17, KDE, and USB Disks – The Saga Continues..

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on June 1, 2012 by RGJune 1, 2012

So, the problem can be summarised as follows: Login using ‘graphical boot’ (runlevel 5) and KDM – everything works correctly. Login using ‘multi-user boot’ (runlevel 3) and then use # startx to run KDE – USB disk mounts fail with “… Not Authorized” I use a non-graphical login (runlevel 3) and then run # startx, as this … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Hacks, Linux, Opinion | Tagged bug, bugzilla, fedora 17, kde, login, not authorized, usb disk mount, usbdisks | Leave a reply

Fedora 17, KDE, and USB Disks – a Workaround!

Adventures With Linux ™ Posted on May 28, 2012 by RGMay 28, 2012

After recently upgrading from Fedora 16 to 17, I found that USB disk mounts in KDE were failing: Could not mount the following device An unspecified error has occurred Not Authorized I finally found a workaround at http://www.suurmeijer.net, and I have slightly modified it: Edit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy as follows:   <action id=”org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount”> <description>Mount a device</description> <description xml:lang=”da”>Montér en … Continue reading →

Posted in Fedora, Hacks | Tagged failure, fedora 17, inactive, kde, polkit-1, startx, usb disk mount, workaround | Leave a reply
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