Ubuntu
hal package

USB flash not mounting on insertion

Bug #94721 reported by Stefano Rivera
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: hal

This may be a duplicate of Bug #86292 - I don't know.

However, I have quite a bit of debugging information, as this is a lab of 84 PCs, and we'd like to get this working.

Background:
Authentication is via LDAP (to eDirectory), and accounts are shared via NIS from the local LAB server. /home is NFS from the same server.

We have one user (TeePOG, the LAB admin, who's account isn't on eDirectory, but in /etc/passwd on the server), and flash drives work for him in KDE. In GNOME they work manually (gnome-mount), but not automatically.
He is a member of "admin".

We have another non-eDirectory user, except not in "admin", and it doesn't work for him.

We are using Feisty, because of bug #65827.

It seems like HAL is picking up the drive insertion, but GNOME or KDE doesn't get any further.

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :
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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :
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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

Gnome Mount doesn't seem to work for users:

gnome-mount 0.5

** (gnome-mount:6415): WARNING **: Failed to initialize libhal context: (null) : (null)

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

ID output for a sample user:

uid=1157(rvrste001) gid=1157(rvrste001) groups=24(cdrom),24(cdrom),25(floppy),25(floppy),29(audio),29(audio),44(video),44(video),46(plugdev),46(plugdev),1157(rvrste001)

pmount seems to work...

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :
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TeePOG (arno-breedt) wrote :
Stefano Rivera (stefanor)
description: updated
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

manager.c/3302: gvm_user_active_at_console: check-foreground-console returned with 1

This seems to be the reason. Does /etc/pam.d/common-session contain

  session optional pam_foreground.so

?

Changed in hal:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

No, and I've never heard of that :-)

TeePOG?

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William Grant (wgrant) wrote :

Not a kde-hal-device-manager bug.

Changed in kde-hal-device-manager:
status: Unconfirmed → Rejected
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TeePOG (arno-breedt) wrote : Re: USB flash not mounting / PAM

The contents of /etc/pam.d/common-auth:

auth optional pam_group.so
auth sufficient pam_ldap.so
auth required pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass

Contents of /etc/pam.d/common-session:

session required pam_unix.so

Should I try changing the "required" in common-session to "optional"? Or is there something more elegant?

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Stefano Rivera (stefanor) wrote :

Thanks, it was pam_foreground.so

Changed in hal:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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