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Questions tagged [udisks]

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"Open File" dialog box takes a long time to appear on all applications

On Ubuntu 14.04. While using KeepassX, I tried to open a database with the Ctrl+O shortcut, but it appeared to crash with a non-responsive window. I then noticed the same behavior with Firefox, gedit, Eye of Gnome and nearly any application I have…
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Why one of two HDDs wakes from sleep during the first Linux graphical login?

I have two archive HDDs, which I use very infrequently (I mount their partitions manually less than once a week on average). Since I turn my computer off at night, I tried to prevent them from spinning up on everyday's boot, but that seems way too…
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Error unlocking encrypted device - Failed to activate device: File exists

I'm having problems unlocking an encrypted hard drive that has been working previously for well over a year. I'm sure the password is correct. I found one post with a similar issue: LUKS encrypted drive will not accept password. Not sure if they…
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Auto-mounting usb drive to certain dirrectory arch linux

I've been using arch for a while, and use udisks with udiskie to automount my usb drives. I have one usb drive that I store my code on, and often have to go to in the terminal. don't like having to type cd /run/media/bobsfriend12/usbdrive/... to use…
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Overriding udisks2 /media/$USER/mount with custom fixed mount point for specific volume, under Debian Buster

I am using Debian Buster, 10.7, and I am relatively new to udev/udisks2/systemd and have been making a effort to get to know them better and have learned quite a lot, though I cannot seem to figure out how to both prevent udisks2 from auto mounting…
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Setting NOEXEC for all removable drives

I am using fedora 30 and I would like to prevent removable drives from being mounted with executable permissions. From my research I have found that Nautilus handles the auto-mounting(using Gnome on fedora 30). I so far haven't been able to find a…
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Limit PCManFM or Udisks2 automount USB drive Read Only

I have a system running Raspbian Jessie with LightDM which auto mounts USB dongles under /media/pi. I would like to make this automount Read Only, so it does automount, but only automounts Read Only. I see that Udisks2 and PCManFM are involved in…
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Why does udisksctl command on my machine say that power-off is not a valid option?

I recently switched to CentOS 7. I was trying to safely remove my backup drive. The drive unmounts, but the LED on it, stays on. I know how a disk can be safely removed using command line as answered here. So I issued the following commands…
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Systemd: hyphens in mount point

By default udisks2 mounts removable drives under /run/media/$USER/[UUID]. The UUID contains hyphens. I wanted to use this mount point in a systemd service. But systemd uses hyphens instead of forward slashs. man systemd.mount tells me: Mount units…
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