unable to mount hard disks which are not already mounted

[Eugene Tretyak]

If hard disk is not mounted it requires admin privileges to do this operation.
To reproduce this, just create a new partition or remove it's declaration from /etc/fstab (by commenting out with a #), go to media:/ and try to mount/unmount it.
You'll get hal-storage-fixed-mount refused uid XXX error.

[Eugene Tretyak (etretyak)]

Quick patch. It calls dbus-message with kdesudo to mount the disks through HAL.
It is not complete. I need to do some additional stuff like errors handling and so on.

[Eugene Tretyak (etretyak)]

Run kdesu command if kdesudo was not found.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

kdebase (4:3.5.8-2ubuntu6) hardy; urgency=low

  * Add kubuntu_9915_userdiskmount.diff from Eugene Tretyak
    Adds user hard disk mounting
    Closes LP: #177036
  * Add kubuntu_9916_konsole_mc_shell.diff from Daniel Hahler
    Closes LP: #93063

 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:03:58 +0000

[geek_inn (ajmal82)]

well two problems i faced/bugs
1)reports error about missing permission with some Userid stuff
2)does your app provide gui interface to do this operation

[Eugene Tretyak (etretyak)]

1) You could get "Permissions denied" error when mounting disk which exists in /etc/fstab without "user" attribute

2) No special gui. Just uses existing functionality of Konqueror/Dolphin.
From command line you could mount with:
$ kio_media_mounthelper -m /dev/sdaX

[Dang Kang (kangdang)]

On mounting the External Hard Disk I wish another issue could be fixed.
After the External Hard Disk is mounted, all the file names with Chinese characters cannot be shown.This issue does not happen in the Ubuntu/GNOME environment.

[Eugene Tretyak (etretyak)]

Dang Kang, I believe it is already fixed in latest kdebase update for Hardy. I've fixes issue with LOCALE settings for Cyrillic encoding, but it is the same for any language.

[Schmirrwurst (schmirrwurst)]

I've the same issue under updated lucid...