Dolphin is unable to mount (SATA connected) drives (USB-connected flash drives work fine) automatically and spits out an error regarding an inability to authenticate due to the unavailability of polkit:
My installation is 12.6.0 with KDE plasma (I also installed i3, but the nature of the error is indistinguishable before vs. after installing i3). There are no discernable hardware issues.
I tried reinstalling polkitd with aptitude's --reinstall flag. This did not work. I tried the same with the dolphin package, and this did not work either.
I then tried checking the polkit.service status with systemctl, which loaded and started the service without fuss. This did not affect Dolphin's ability to mount drives, either.
There are some related forum posts for other distros where the issue was resolved by one of the steps above, or by editing certain text files in the /usr/bin/ or /etc/ directories whose exact name/location appears to be specific to the versions or distros in question; I was unable to determine where the analogous files for Debian 12.6/KDE would be.
My system has no trouble mounting the drives manually (sudo mkdir ... || sudo mount ..), and dolphin has no trouble opening the drives thereafter. However, I am concerned that this may reflect a deeper problem with how polkit is configured on my system, such that it would be best to solve the issue, rather than simply work around it (e.g., adding a bash script that mounts my usual drives to the startup routine).An error occurred while accessing 'DATA' [drive name], the system responded: Cannot request authentication for this action. The PolicyKit authenication system appears to be not available. Not authorized to perform operation.
My installation is 12.6.0 with KDE plasma (I also installed i3, but the nature of the error is indistinguishable before vs. after installing i3). There are no discernable hardware issues.
I tried reinstalling polkitd with aptitude's --reinstall flag. This did not work. I tried the same with the dolphin package, and this did not work either.
I then tried checking the polkit.service status with systemctl, which loaded and started the service without fuss. This did not affect Dolphin's ability to mount drives, either.
There are some related forum posts for other distros where the issue was resolved by one of the steps above, or by editing certain text files in the /usr/bin/ or /etc/ directories whose exact name/location appears to be specific to the versions or distros in question; I was unable to determine where the analogous files for Debian 12.6/KDE would be.
Statistics: Posted by roboev — 2024-08-27 09:12 — Replies 1 — Views 37