Starting my PC: When Plasma is up I am to enter root password for mounting a partition

JZL240I-U · 05-19-2020, 02:12 PM

This is on openSUSE tumbleweed but with about 6 other distros all over the machine. The actually runnung tumbleweed is on /dev/sdc2 and /home on /dev/sdc6. A popup pops up

and says that the partition to be mounted is /dev/sdb8 which is a recently created logical partition for testing GhostBSD (which didn't work due to its installer). /dev/sdb8 has absolutely no relevance here. When I break off mounting /dev/sdb8 nothing happens or is broken.

How can I find out what is causing this? It says on the popup "polkit.subject-pid: 2366" and polkit.caller-pid: 1983". "px ax" yields

Code:

1983 ?        Ssl    0:01 /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd
2366 ?        Sl     0:01 kded5

How can I get rid of this?

shruggy · 05-19-2020, 02:29 PM

Perhaps, run journalctl and search for polkit?

JZL240I-U · 05-20-2020, 08:34 AM

Ah, you were right. I will post an excerpt below:

Code:

Mai 20 15:27:16 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: New PolkitAgentListener  0x557e61571200
Mai 20 15:27:16 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Adding new listener  PolkitQt1::Agent::Listener(0x557e61584bc0) for  0x557e61571200
Mai 20 15:27:16 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Listener online
Mai 20 15:27:16 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Authentication agent result: true
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Listener adapter polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: GSimpleAsyncResult: 0x557e6159c9e0
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication callback for  0x557e61571200
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Initiating authentication
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Message of action:  "Legitimierung ist zum Einhängen von SanDisk SDSSDH3500G (/dev/sdb8) notwendig"
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Action description has been found
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: WinId of the dialog is  35651590 35651590
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: WinId of the shown dialog is  35651590 35651590
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Trying again
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Listener adapter polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: GSimpleAsyncResult: 0x557e618e5650
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication callback for  0x557e61571200
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Initiating authentication
...

Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication_finish callback for  0x557e61571200
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Another client is already authenticating, please try again later.
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-agent-helper-1[2658]: pam_kwallet5(polkit-1:auth): (null): pam_sm_authenticate
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-agent-helper-1[2658]: pam_kwallet5(polkit-1:auth): pam_kwallet5: Couldn't get password (it is empty)
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: REQUEST
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Request:  "Password: "
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: "Password: "
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Listener adapter polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: GSimpleAsyncResult: 0x7fc248009d60
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: polkit_qt_listener_initiate_authentication callback for  0x557e61571200
Mai 20 15:27:18 PC polkit-kde-authentication-agent-1[2325]: Initiating authentication
...

I don't understand what is happening. Can you make something of that? What should I do to stop that?

shruggy · 05-20-2020, 09:06 AM

Hmm, perhaps it thinks of /dev/sdb8 as a removable device and tries to auto-mount it?

JZL240I-U · 05-20-2020, 11:16 AM

Hmm, and why not sdb1-sdb7 nor sdb9-sdb15? Not to mention the rest of the partitions on the four other disks... No, really, how to switch that off?

JZL240I-U · 06-13-2020, 07:22 AM

I found a workaround but no solution. I right-clicked on removable media(?, that symbol with which on can eject and mount external devices / device monitoring, sorry I have to translate that from German). Got two lines:

First one like "attend to portable media" or so. In the popup I checked and /dev/sda8 was not activated. So I unchecked "Automatically mount all removable media at login". That leaves "Automatically mount all removable media when attached" active.

Second line like "manage device monitoring program" I activated "all devices"; "Show popup when new device is attache" stayed active.

Well, now the stupid popup doesn't show anymore. But it seems that the system rates /dev/sda8 as removable device: where the {censored} is the information stored that makes it think that? Any config - rc - whatever-file known which might be the culprit?

shruggy · 06-14-2020, 07:22 AM

Well, at least, judging from the udisks(8) manpage, there's a way to override udisks' notion of automountable devices by setting the UDISKS_AUTO property in udev.

JZL240I-U · 06-15-2020, 04:16 AM

Arrrgh, I hate that. From the man page you suggested:

Quote:

DRIVE CONFIGURATION
At start-up and when a drive is connected, udisksd(8) will apply configuration stored in the file /etc/udisks2/IDENTIFIER.conf ...

...only that there is no IDENTIFIER.conf in my system. SUSE seems to do it somehow differently. I really hate these things. But thanks anyhow for your help.

But:

Code:

me@PC:~> udisksctl info -b /dev/sdb8
/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb8:
  org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Block:
    Configuration:              []
    CryptoBackingDevice:        '/'
    Device:                     /dev/sdb8
    DeviceNumber:               2072
    Drive:                      '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/SanDisk_SDSSDH3500G_180293805989'
    HintAuto:                   false
...

So the reason for this behavior must lie elsewhere.

*sigh*