VL64-7.1 RC3 Unable to mount drive or paritions

[retired1af]

Unable to mount drives or partitions in RC3. Disk Utility gives an Authentication Failure error after submitting root password. Drives and partitions are also not listed in Thunar, even with Enable Volume Management checked.

[roarde]

Verified.

Instead of submitting root password, try user password. You'll get interesting results like being able to do anything whatsoever with any HARD DISK PARTITIONS that aren't mentioned in fstab.

Same problem as you with Thunar, too. Doesn't even offer newly-plugged USB's, even when set up to do so. SpaceFM works normally in this regard, even from xfce.

Here's your problem with Disk Utility. File systems mentioned in fstab follow the mount permissions mentioned there instead, of course.

roarde:$ ls -l /dev/sda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 6 Nov  7 02:50 /dev/sda6
vector:/~
roarde:$ groups
roarde disk lp wheel floppy audio video cdrom games slocate plugdev netdev
scanner users
vector:/~
roarde:$ ls -l /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 0 Nov  6 19:08 /dev/sda
vector:/~
roarde:$ dd if=/dev/sda of=./heh bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000161752 s, 3.2 MB/s
vector:/~
roarde:$ ls -l heh
-rw-r--r-- 1 roarde roarde 512 Nov  7 02:54 heh
vector:/~
roarde:$ dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.000143594 s, 3.6 MB/s
vector:/~
roarde:$ dd if=heh of=/dev/sda
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00029487 s, 1.7 MB/s
vector:/~
roarde:$ stir cryo
Houston, weˈve had a problem.
vectorː/̃̃̃̃̃̃̃̃̃̃ 
roardeː$ cat /etc/vector-version
7.1 STD RC2.3 built on Sep-22-2014

[Moises Henriquez]

Fixed in RC3.1 ISO