reassign 609201 udisks tag 609201 unreproducible thanks Le vendredi 07 janvier 2011 à 11:26 +0100, Christian Schwamborn a écrit : > when I try to connect a ntfs formated disk, I'm getting this message: > > Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with: > Error opening ' /dev/sdb1': Permission denied > Failed to mount '/dev/sdb1': Permission denied > Please check '/dev/sdb1' and the ntfs-3g binary permissions, > and the mounting user ID. More explanation is provided at > http://ntfs-3g.org/support.html#unprivileged
The mounting itself is done by udisks, which is privileged, not by gvfs. > mounting other formats (i.e. fat, ext) works just fine So there is nothing wrong on the permissions side. > permissions for /dev/sdb1 seems to be correct > c...@pikass:~$ ls -l /dev/sdb* > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 16 7. Jan 11:03 /dev/sdb > brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 8, 17 7. Jan 11:03 /dev/sdb1 Indeed. > I even tried to set a uid bit (4755) on ntfs-3g, as suggested by http://ntfs- > 3g.org/support.html This is useless for mounting with udisks. > It seems to apply only for amd64, since I performed two squeeze installations > in the last weeks. > The first was around the 16th of december 2010 on an i386er machine as a test > and two days ago another one as amd64. Automounting ntfs drives in Gnome on > the > i386 installation works just fine but not on the amd64 machine. This is certainly unrelated to the architecture, but might be caused by either a local misconfiguration or a missing package. I can definitely not reproduce this on my amd64 machines. Cheers, -- .''`. : :' : “You would need to ask a lawyer if you don't know `. `' that a handshake of course makes a valid contract.” `- -- J???rg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
