Cannot automount drives

Question

Hello to all, I've been using arch for about 2 years now, and I have never really had any issues with it(that I couldn't solve by reading the wiki) until now.
I have been learning to understand how systemd works and it seems coherent to me, except for one thing: I cannot make it so my additional partitions and usb drives mount automatically.
or maybe I should clarify.
Before, with consolekit in /etc/rc.conf, and using openbox, all I had to do was in ~/.xinitrc 'exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session' and whenever a drive was connected all I had to do was to open nautilus and clic on the entry for that device on the panel on the side and it would automatically grant me read and write access as a normal user without asking for passwords, and it worked wonderfully.
Now, I still see the entries in nautilus, but when I clic on them, I get a message saying that I'm not authorized to perform that operation,
systemctl list-unit-files shows that dbus.service, autfs.service and udisks2.service are enabled and usdisk.service is disabled so that it does not conflict with udsik2.service.
I am on the storage and the disk groups, and if I do 'sudo udisks --mount <device>' the device mounts without issues, so udisks does work fine, I just don't know how to set it so I can just clic on the device on nautilus and access the drives.
any help would be greately appreciated.
Jay

Answer 1

This weekend I made a fresh install in a USB stick, and I have the same problem.
I have, Openbox, PCManFM and Tint2. Another packages, udisks2, gvfs, gamin, polkit, polkit-gnome, libfm and finally udisks (I was trying everything).
Too, try in groups storage and disks, out in groups. Several policy-kits... and I can't see another USBs.
Comparing with my anothers Archs (they are using console-kit-daemon.service); so, I can't see if a 'service' is missing.
This is systemctl output: (automount no working because pcmanfm can't see any media)
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
proc-sys...t_misc.automount loaded active waiting Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point
sys-devi...und-card0.device loaded active plugged /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1b.0/sound/card0
sys-subs...ces-wlan0.device loaded active plugged /sys/subsystem/net/devices/wlan0
-.mount loaded active mounted /
dev-hugepages.mount loaded active mounted Huge Pages File System
dev-mqueue.mount loaded active mounted POSIX Message Queue File System
sys-kernel-debug.mount loaded active mounted Debug File System
tmp.mount loaded active mounted Temporary Directory
systemd-...ord-console.path loaded active waiting Dispatch Password Requests to Console Directory Watch
systemd-...ssword-wall.path loaded active waiting Forward Password Requests to Wall Directory Watch
dbus.service loaded active running D-Bus System Message Bus
[email protected] loaded active running Getty on tty1
polkit.service loaded active running Authorization Manager
systemd-journald.service loaded active running Journal Service
systemd-logind.service loaded active running Login Service
systemd-remount-fs.service loaded active exited Remount Root and Kernel File Systems
systemd-sysctl.service loaded active exited Apply Kernel Variables
systemd-...es-setup.service loaded active exited Recreate Volatile Files and Directories
systemd-...-trigger.service loaded active exited udev Coldplug all Devices
systemd-udevd.service loaded active running udev Kernel Device Manager
systemd-...sessions.service loaded active exited Permit User Sessions
systemd-...le-setup.service loaded active exited Setup Virtual Console
udisks2.service loaded active running Disk Manager
dbus.socket loaded active running D-Bus System Message Bus Socket
systemd-initctl.socket loaded active listening /dev/initctl Compatibility Named Pipe
systemd-journald.socket loaded active running Journal Socket
systemd-shutdownd.socket loaded active listening Delayed Shutdown Socket
systemd-...d-control.socket loaded active listening udev Control Socket
systemd-udevd-kernel.socket loaded active running udev Kernel Socket
basic.target loaded active active Basic System
cryptsetup.target loaded active active Encrypted Volumes
getty.target loaded active active Login Prompts
graphical.target loaded active active Graphical Interface
local-fs-pre.target loaded active active Local File Systems (Pre)
local-fs.target loaded active active Local File Systems
multi-user.target loaded active active Multi-User
remote-fs.target loaded active active Remote File Systems
sockets.target loaded active active Sockets
sound.target loaded active active Sound Card
swap.target loaded active active Swap
sysinit.target loaded active active System Initialization
systemd-...iles-clean.timer loaded active waiting Daily Cleanup of Temporary Directories
LOAD = Reflects whether the unit definition was properly loaded.
ACTIVE = The high-level unit activation state, i.e. generalization of SUB.
SUB = The low-level unit activation state, values depend on unit type.
69 loaded units listed. Pass --all to see loaded but inactive units, too.
To show all installed unit files use 'systemctl list-unit-files'.
@jcmeza How have you get enable usdisks2 or polkit?
They haven't [install] section. So, have you modified it?
I don't how yet. I'm reading about that in systemd.
Last edited by Alber (2013-01-07 19:10:08)