Does not request authentication, instead, stops with error.

[Jon Charge]

Binary package hint: nautilus

When unmounting and mounting an internal volume (that has fstab entries) as a regular user, I get the following result...

Error unmounting: umount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
umount: only root can unmount /dev/sda4 from /home/jon/share

Also, when mounting...
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: only root can mount /dev/sda4 on /home/jon/share

What should happen: The program should ask for authentication as soon as it realized you have to be root.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jan 3 20:33:09 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release Candidate i386 (20091020.3)
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.28.1-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-16.53-generic
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-16-generic i686

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

We do not support overriding /etc/fstab drives in the GUI, since that can seriously damage your system (if you change the Ubuntu root partition, etc.). If you want to manipulate non-Ubuntu partitions (such as spare Windows partitions), then don't put them into /etc/fstab.

[Jon Charge (seropith)]

Hi. I have reopened the bug. I don't think we are on the same page here, but uf we are, and I'm not realizing it, please reclose the bug.

The reason I'm reopening the bug: I'm speaking of mounting and unmounting entries already in FSTAB. I'm not speaking of manipulating (ADD, DELETE, CHANGE)ing entries from fstab. The entires that generated this bug were EXT4 (Which can safely be said... an "ubuntu" partition.

Also, when we authenticate as "root", we are taking responsibility for anything that may go wrong. Albeit, it would be hard to unmount the root partition (or any other partition on use). Please note, I'm not speaking of any manipulation of the entries, jsut mount and unmount. (You must unmount to FSCK, or reformat, etc).

[Jon Charge (seropith)]

Pardon the mispellings, keyboard here has failed batteries that need changing.

[Jon Charge (seropith)]

I'm checking the status of this bug. Per the above, I will close this bug as WONTFIX if nothing new is added in a few days time. Thank you for your time and consideration.

[Jon Charge (seropith)]

Checking status on this bug, is there anything you need added from me?

[Jon Charge (seropith)]

Suggest WONTFIX per above, no more interaction from the developer on this issue.