After recently upgrading from Fedora 16 to 17, I found that USB disk mounts in KDE were failing:<\/p>\n
Could not mount the following deviceI finally found a workaround at http:\/\/www.suurmeijer.net<\/a>, and I have slightly modified it:<\/p>\n Edit \/usr\/share\/polkit-1\/actions\/org.freedesktop.udisks.policy as follows:<\/p>\n Change is Applied these changes, and KDE USB mount now works.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It would appear that when starting a KDE session from the command line (# startx<\/strong>) the session is still flagged as ‘inactive’ for some reason… \u00a0 \u00a0 Not sure if this is a bug or a feature, now…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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: \u00a0 <action id=”org.freedesktop.udisks.filesystem-mount”> <description>Mount a device<\/description> <description xml:lang=”da”>Mont\u00e9r en …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[149,156,200,207,301,349,387,418],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fedora","category-hacks","tag-failure","tag-fedora-17","tag-inactive","tag-kde","tag-polkit-1","tag-startx","tag-usb-disk-mount","tag-workaround"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rglinuxtech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<description>Mount a device<\/description>
\n<description xml:lang=”da”>Mont\u00e9r en enhed<\/description>
\n<message>Authentication is required to mount the device<\/message>
\n<message xml:lang=”da”>Autorisering er p\u00e5kr\u00e6vet for at montere et fil system<\/message>
\n<defaults>
\n<allow_any>no<\/allow_any>
\n<allow_inactive>yes<\/allow_inactive>
\n<allow_active>yes<\/allow_active>
\n<\/defaults>
\n<\/action><\/address>\n
\nfrom <allow_inactive>no<\/strong><\/allow_inactive>
\nto\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 <allow_inactive>yes<\/strong><\/allow_inactive><\/p>\n