Xubuntu,Thunar,HDD: "Daemon is inhibited"
Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2016 2:13 pm
[PROBLEM]
Trying to mount a freshly bought, external USB harddisk on Xubuntu 12.04 (64bit).
Getting the following message when I try to open it in Thunar:
[SOLUTION]
I had the Gnome Partition Editor (gparted) running.
In order to avoid havoc, chaos and tears, it makes sense that gparted restricts access to disks while it's running
Trying to mount a freshly bought, external USB harddisk on Xubuntu 12.04 (64bit).
Getting the following message when I try to open it in Thunar:
When I try to open it from the Desktop, simply nothing happensFailed to mount "XXX"
Daemon is inhibited.
[SOLUTION]
I had the Gnome Partition Editor (gparted) running.
In order to avoid havoc, chaos and tears, it makes sense that gparted restricts access to disks while it's running