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Tolstoi
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 Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:26 pm Post subject: [solved] usb flash drive and write access in kde4 |
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Just recently I ran into the problem that I don't have write access to my flash drives I insert. Automounting and browsing the contents works fine. I don't know when or why this happened because it always used to work fine. I'm using KDE4 and the whole system is up to date using ~x86.
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BillWho
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Tolstoi,
I'm not sure if this is related to your problem or not, but a recent polkit update mentioned executing usermod -d /var/empty polkitd
The thread is here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-927288-highlight-polkitd.html
That seemed to cure my problems
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Tolstoi
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:47 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks, I'll try that as soon as I'm home again from work. Hope it helps. |
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Tolstoi
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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When I execute the command
this is what I get: | Code: | | usermod: user polkitd is currently used by process 2074 |
Still not able to write to my flashdrive. I don't want to edit fstab or create udev rules or whatever because I didn't have to before and it should be possible to do without nowadays. |
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Tolstoi
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:06 pm Post subject: |
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| Just killed the process and tried again. This time I got no output after using the udev -d command but it still doesn't work. |
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Tolstoi
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| Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 5:40 pm Post subject: |
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| Ah, sorry - it was a faulty flash drive. |
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