devicekit prompts for authentication to mount internal disk at every login

[Steve Langasek]

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

Every time I log in under karmic, I get a policykit authentication dialog asking to mount /dev/sda6.

/dev/sda6 is a /boot partition for a foreign install - if I wanted it mounted I would have it in my fstab, and since it isn't, I don't want devicekit to pester me about it.

Details from the dialog:
  Drive: ATA HITACHI mumble
  Device: /dev/sda6
  Action: org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal
  Vendor: The DeviceKit Project

At the very least, I should have some way to tell devicekit "never prompt me for this again"; but I think the best would be for devicekit to not try to mount any internal disk partitions, entrusting this to the fstab.

This appears to be similar, but not identical, to bug #403976.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Aug 5 09:31:41 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: devicekit-disks 005-0ubuntu5
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic x86_64

[James Dearing (dearingj)]

I'm having the same problem, I think. My computer asks me, every time it boots, for authentication so that it can mount my Windows partition (NTFS, Windows Vista). In System->Administration->Authorizations, I have set it to allow mounting internal disks without authentication, to see if it would make any difference, and it doesn't. The action identifier in Authorizations is org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed. I forget what the identifier is in the authentication dialog but it's not the same.