[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/13/18 3:19 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: Robert, I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the same for all 3. Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast majority of cases remote

[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/13/18 11:14 AM, Peter Robinson wrote: I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the same for all 3. Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast majority of cases remote desktops will

[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Peter Robinson
> >> I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the > >> same for all 3. > >> > >> Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local > >> devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast majority of > >> cases remote desktops will have emulated

[fedora-arm] Re: Journal corrupted - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Just did a power cycle and again at the login prompt time got: [   79.174005] systemd-journald[603]: File /var/log/journal/d95778d33e104db0941e0df35b8fe8b2/user-1000.journal corrupted or uncleanly shut down, renaming and replacing. On 9/13/18 10:38 AM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: After the dnf

[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
On 9/13/18 10:56 AM, Paul Whalen wrote: - Original Message - Robert, I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the same for all 3. Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast

[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Paul Whalen
- Original Message - > Robert, > > I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the > same for all 3. > > Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local > devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast majority of > cases remote

[fedora-arm] Re: F29 -- Error - XFCE PolicyKit Agent

2018-09-13 Thread Peter Robinson
On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 3:29 PM Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > F29-Xfce starts up with a dialog box with this error message: > > XFCE PolicyKit Agent > > I did a google search and found this old thread: > > https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=201439 > > What should I do about fixing this?

[fedora-arm] Journal corrupted - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
After the dnf update, updating some 130 rpms from testing-update, I did a poweroff then powered back up. I see the following message on the console just before the login: [   72.898695] systemd-journald[581]: File /var/log/journal/d95778d33e104db0941e0df35b8fe8b2/user-1000.journal corrupted

[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Peter, I will test this. I have a ClearOS6 server with Gnome that I have accessed for years via VNC and have accessed USB drives all the time.  But that is ClearOS and their setup, so I may have wrong expectations.  So let's see... Oh, wait.  I log in as root over VNC to the ClearOS box and

[fedora-arm] F29 -- Error - XFCE PolicyKit Agent

2018-09-13 Thread Robert Moskowitz
F29-Xfce starts up with a dialog box with this error message: XFCE PolicyKit Agent I did a google search and found this old thread: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=201439 What should I do about fixing this? thanks ___ arm mailing list --

[fedora-arm] Re: User cannot mount USB device - Fedora-Xfce-armhfp-29-20180911.n.0-sda

2018-09-13 Thread Peter Robinson
Robert, I'm not replying to all your emails as I suspect the problem is the same for all 3. Generally in Linux a remote user by default won't get access to local devices. I'm not sure in the case of VNC but in the vast majority of cases remote desktops will have emulated devices that access the