no USB automount with olpc3

[dsd]

USB drives are not automounted and are hence not accessible from the journal.

[walter]

I find that automount is work (Joyride 2037), but the USB device is not showing up in the Journal. You can access it from the Terminal.

[dsd]

It's definitely not mounted at all for me. Walter, are you definitely using the OLPC-3 stream (Fedora 9)? I suspect this is a platform-level issue.

[erikg]

I see this in the journal logs on olpc3-19:

1213827750.527455 ERROR root: Exception when mounting device dbus.String(u'/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_2221_09FD'): DBusException('org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)',)

Apparently we are not allowed to mount drives according to the hal storage policies. Modifying the obvious stanza in /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy and restarting hald (via /etc/init.d/haldaemon restart) does not appear to have any affect.

[erikg]

I have found two reports of the same bug in HAL package version >0.5.10. We are running 0.5.11 on olpc3-19: in Ubuntu with a user running KDE https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/172453, and in Gentoo http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4540223.html. Unfortunately neither bug report describes a resolution, but both are more than six months old.

[dsd]

This is broken because HAL asks PolicyKit if sugar is allowed to mount removable drives, but PolicyKit says no. PK asks CK if sugar is part of the active session, CK says no, and the default PK rules specify that only active users can mount stuff.

[marco]

Possible explanation of the ck issues: http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/devel/2008-June/015588.html

[marco]

I sent a patch here:

http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/code-review/2008-June/000022.html

To test it, make sure to be in X11 when you insert the USB stick, otherwise pk will deny the mount. Also note that there is a UI bug which prevents the device to be shown in the UI... You should see it mounted in /media though.

[marco]

Tomeu verified that automount works in joyride.

#7346 cover the UI issue.

[gregorio]

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