Problems going into another operative system. [solved]

fsmithred · 2018-06-05 19:01:09

DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING IN MXLINUX!

We gave you several easy ways to be able to access mxlinux file from devuan. If you want it to work in devuan the same as it works in mxlinux, we need more information. (And it will probably be more complicated.)

What desktop environment, display manager and file manager does mxlinux use?
What desktop environment, display manager and file manager is installed in devuan?

keos · 2018-06-05 19:34:41

O'k, understood. Lets wait for developers.

Thank you very much.

golinux · 2018-06-05 19:36:41

@keos . . . we are both developers! Trust me, fsmithred is the best person to help you on this.

keos · 2018-06-06 12:28:00

Hi,

I didn't know that ...

but any way, what i means by “to wait for developers” it is to wait for a sort of update, or wherever, in which this problem can be solved without much on the side of the user, because the whole thing is difficult, at least for me, and i don't want to brake the system AGAIN. He said "and it will probably be more complicated". And he need more information ... Some times to get information for me it is difficult since i don't know the commands in order to identify ... i was searching in Google to know the command for the 'display manager' and 'file manager' and found nothing understandable, clear or simple but a lot of confused statements.

Do you still wanting to help this newbie person?.

-- please, tell me step by step what do i have to do.

Thanks!

devuser · 2018-06-06 14:53:30

I am not much help here but from your signature i guess your file manager in Devuan is Thunar. Searching around a bit it seems Thunar uses udisks2 (not sure if that's always the case) for mounting stuff which in turn relies on policykit for permissions (See: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?p=505400). Not that i can really help you here but i am curious if you can mount anything at all. Like does mounting USB devices work?

keos · 2018-06-06 17:36:50

Well may be in the future this facility will be provided.

There are not problems with USB devices.

keos · 2018-06-07 12:19:20

i realized today that when the system start and is displaying all these lines of information on the black screen ... there is one line that is saying something (it run to fast) like can't mount ext3 because incompatibility ... is it not this problem maybe due to a systemd?. MXLinux do not run init systemd but has systemd ...

Just in case to let you know ...

Thanks.

devuser · 2018-06-07 13:17:34

OK, i'll take a shot at this. My best guess is this related to missing polkit permissions for udisks2 so maybe you could try the following:

Open /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.udisks2.policy (yes, it's ugly as fuck - lennartware...).

Look for

<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system">

Below it find the tags auth_any, auth_active and auth_inactive.
Change their values to either yes or auth_self (i seriously don't know which one makes more sense).
Reboot (as i have zero idea what what lennarts polkit crapware needs to reread it's settings).
Hope for the best.

Word of caution: I don't have the slightest experience with this but it that's really the cause waiting for Debian and thereby Devuan to change the defaults is likely to need eternal patience.

keos · 2018-06-07 17:19:55

No there is nothing like auth_any, auth_active and auth_inactive [and it is a very long list ...]

<action id="org.freedesktop.udisks2.filesystem-mount-system">
    <description>Mount a filesystem on a system device</description>
    <description xml:lang="ca">Munta un sistema de fitxers en un dispositiu del$
    <description xml:lang="cs">Připojit souborový systém na systémovém zařízení$
    <description xml:lang="da">Monter et filsystem på en systemenhed</descripti$
    <description xml:lang="de">Ein Dateisystem auf einem Systemgerät einhängen<$
    <description xml:lang="el">Προσάρτηση συστήματος αρχείων σε μια συσκευή του$
    <description xml:lang="en_GB">Mount a filesystem on a system device</descri$
    <description xml:lang="es">Montar un sistema de archivos en un dispositivo $
    <description xml:lang="fi">Liitä järjestelmälaitteella sijaitseva tiedostoj$
    <description xml:lang="gl">Modificar un sistema de ficheiros nun dispositiv$
    <description xml:lang="hr">Montiraj datotečni sustav na sustavski uređaj</d$
    <description xml:lang="hu">Fájlrendszer csatolása rendszereszközön</descrip$
    <description xml:lang="ia">Montar un systema de files sur un dispositivo de$
    <description xml:lang="id">Kaitkan suatu sistem berkas pada suatu perangkat$

devuser · 2018-06-07 17:22:29

It's below all the descriptions but above the </action>. Those configuration files are truely a mess i know

keos · 2018-06-07 17:46:23

Ok,i found it:

<message xml:lang="uk">Щоб змонтувати файлову систему, слід пройти розпізна$
    <message xml:lang="zh_CN">挂载文件系统需要身份验证</message>
    <message xml:lang="zh_TW">要掛載檔案系統需要先核對身分</message>
    <defaults>
      <allow_any>auth_admin</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>auth_admin_keep</allow_active>
    </defaults>
  </action>

Are you asking to change 'allow' for 'auth_self'?

devuser · 2018-06-07 18:08:19

No, i ment to change auth_admin and auth_admin_keep to either

auth_self

(according to docs that should ask for authenticaten - root password?) or

yes

(which should just do it without further questions).

I am really stabbing in the dark here but i guess it's worth a try.

Last edited by devuser (2018-06-07 18:12:32)

keos · 2018-06-07 18:23:34

O'k before harakiri ... at least i want to be sure if this is what i have to do:

<allow_any>auth_self</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>auth_self</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>auth_self</allow_active>

devuser · 2018-06-07 18:34:10

Yeah, at least i don't think that'll make anything blow up.

keos · 2018-06-07 18:44:16

I'm back again, no it didn't blow up but nothing happened ...

*About my previous commentary ... this time i got to read the whole line at the screen when restarted the system:

couldn't mount ext3 due to future incompatibilities

http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=9808#p9808

Last edited by keos (2018-06-07 18:46:52)

devuser · 2018-06-07 18:54:17

keos wrote:

I'm back again, no it didn't blow up but nothing happened ...

Sad but it wasn't a big chance. Might try

yes

instead of auth_self if you aren't bored with it yet but i don't have all that much hope.

keos wrote:

*About my previous commentary ... this time i got to read the whole line at the screen when restarted the system:
couldn't mount ext3 due to future incompatibilities
http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=9808#p9808

This is very likely unrelated. As shown by the blkid you posted on the last page your MXLinux partition uses ext4.

keos · 2018-06-07 19:14:32

Nothing ...

Any way,

Thank you very much for your help!!

keos · 2018-06-07 19:29:24

you are not going to believe this, i went back to /etc/fstab and i changed again the line:

/dev/sda3 / auto defaults,noatime 1 1

for /dev/sda3: LABEL="MXLinux" UUID="66f3f330-78b2-4767-bc3e-8a9e7750e476" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="000f1103-03"

and this time it works!!

Thanks!!

Last edited by keos (2018-06-07 19:31:40)

devuser · 2018-06-07 19:38:20

Nice, finally! Glad to hear that

golinux · 2018-06-07 19:58:05

keos wrote:

Question:

and if from mxlinux i go to fstab and change what is over there:

# Pluggable devices are handled by uDev, they are not in fstab
/dev/sda3 / auto defaults,noatime 1 1

to this:

UUID=6e55911a-2620-4ab6-b2b5-1458602e6252       /       ext4    defaults,noatime        0       1
UUID=0b4a75ba-8b74-47b1-8aaa-2d971f92732f       swap    swap    defaults        0       0
LABEL=MXLinux    /mnt    auto defaults,noatime     0     0

Congratulations!!!! Didn't I suggest exactly that here?

keos · 2018-06-08 12:09:42

just for clarification: i did't nothing at MXLinux that line was added in Devuan.

golinux · 2018-06-08 13:07:36

keos wrote:

just for clarification: i did't nothing at MXLinux that line was added in Devuan.

Of course. Sorry I didn't make that clearer.

fsmithred · 2018-06-08 13:46:35

just for clarification: i did't nothing at MXLinux that line was added in Devuan.

Good. Just so you know what that line does...

/dev/sda3 / auto defaults,noatime 1 1

That says to mount sda3 (your MXLinux partition) at the root of the filesystem. Which means you would be running mx, not devuan.

Whereas, this line:

/dev/sda3 /mnt auto defaults,noatime 1 1

mounts the mx partition at /mnt, where it is available, but is not the system that's running at that time.

Changing '/dev/whatever' to 'UUID=' or 'LABEL=' is just a different way of identifying the partition. Sometimes it's necessary to do that. (e.g. multiple disks in the computer)

keos · 2018-06-08 17:49:07

ok it is my "english", what i means is that i never went into MXLinux to do anything -- as you advised me here: http://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=9776#p9776

thanks!

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