KDE automounts devices that are not configured to do so

[Mark]

Binary package hint: kdesudo

This just started happening yesterday after installing a couple of packages (which ones, of course, I can't remember... I was in the process of trying to get compositing to work... and old age is cruel...)

Whenever I login (and when I unlock the screensaver) I get FOUR consecutive kdesudo dialogs asking for my password, saying it's required to access some "device"... I don't know what this is for.

Is it possible something is trying to harvest me password???

[Mark (mark-localmotive)]

Forgot to say... sorry... This is fairly recent (two weeks ago) full Kubuntu Lucid AMD64 install

[Mark (mark-localmotive)]

After looking deeper at this, I can see that kdesu is not the problem, but now I don't know which "package" is appropriate...

Here is output from "ps -ef":

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -d --noignorebutton --comment Please enter your password to use this device -c dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_ACEAAB62EAAB2812 org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string:locale=en_US.UTF-8

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -d --noignorebutton --comment Please enter your password to use this device -c dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_2C88743C8874071C org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string:locale=en_US.UTF-8

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -d --noignorebutton --comment Please enter your password to use this device -c dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_202C327F2C324FD0 org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string:locale=en_US.UTF-8

/usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -d --noignorebutton --comment Please enter your password to use this device -c dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_CAB80056B8004403 org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string:locale=en_US.UTF-8

The UUIS's are for these disk partitions:

/dev/sdb1
/dev/sdb2
/dev/sdb3
/dev/sda1

These just happen to be my Windows NTFS partitions.

So I try to find files in/under my home directory that contain one of these UUIDs and this is what I get...

sudo find . -type f -exec grep -l CAB80056B8004403 {} \;
./.kde/share/apps/amarok/collection.db
./.kde/share/config/kded_device_automounterrc
./.kde/share/config/kwikdiskrc

I suppose I could just delete these, but this still leaves me wondering what's trying to mount these and why???

[Stefan Fleiter (stefan-fleiter)]

I have the same problem:

# ps fwwwwx | grep kdesu |grep -v grep
11231 ? Sl 0:00 \_ /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu -d --noignorebutton --comment Bitte geben Sie Ihr Passwort ein, um dieses Gerät zu benutzen -c dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.Hal /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_30040C1F040BE726 org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Mount string: string: array:string:locale=de_DE.UTF-8

Setting package to my best guess, this is not a kdesudo problem.

I have Kde from
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ppa

LANG=C apt-cache policy kdebase-runtime
kdebase-runtime:
  Installed: 4:4.5.4-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1
  Candidate: 4:4.5.4-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1
  Version table:
 *** 4:4.5.4-0ubuntu1~maverick1~ppa1 0
        500 http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     4:4.5.1-0ubuntu3.1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick-updates/main amd64 Packages
     4:4.5.1-0ubuntu3 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ maverick/main amd64 Packages

[Stefan Fleiter (stefan-fleiter)]

Removing
################################################################################
[Devices][/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_30040C1F040BE726]
EverMounted=true
ForceAttachAutomount=false
ForceLoginAutomount=false
Icon=drive-harddisk
LastNameSeen=OS
LastSeenMounted=false
################################################################################
from ~/.kde/share/config/kded_device_automounterrc fixes the problem.

ForceLoginAutomount is set to false.
Shouldn't that prevent the dialog on session startup?

More about the device:
################################################################################
# findfs UUID=30040C1F040BE726·
/dev/sda3

LANG=C sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30000000

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
   /dev/sda1 1 15 120456 de Dell Utility
   /dev/sda2 16 1321 10485760 7 HPFS/NTFS
   /dev/sda3 * 1321 5890 36700160+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
   /dev/sda4 5891 30402 196885920+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
   /dev/sda5 30075 30402 2620416 dd Unknown
   /dev/sda6 5891 5902 96358+ 83 Linux
   /dev/sda7 5903 10471 36700461 83 Linux
   /dev/sda8 10472 12038 12586896 83 Linux
   /dev/sda9 12039 29545 140624946 83 Linux
   /dev/sda10 29546 30074 4249161 82 Linux swap / Solaris

   Partition table entries are not in disk order
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[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hi there!

Thanks for reporting this bug! Your bug seems to be a problem with the KDE program itself, and not with our KDE packages. While we appreciate your issue, it would be better if it was tracked at https://bugs.kde.org, so that the KDE developers can deal with this speedily and have direct communication with you as the reporter for more effective debugging.

Thanks!

[Stefan Fleiter (stefan-fleiter)]

For those bothered by this:

Simply removing ~/.kde/share/config/kded_device_automounterrc helps, the file is recreated automatically.