Hi all.
First off, thanks to the Solus team for the work on this project. Been a real treat using Solus. Great performance on my old Inspiron 3543. Also, I highly appreciate the attention to detail: from how the eopkg verbose looks like, down to how KDE is set up.
Disclaimer: Although I have several years of ubuntu-based distros under my belt, I consider myself a beginner in Linux, so please excuse any noobyness in this post. Thank you!
I have a few questions, but first-off, here is what happened:
I noticed that my secondary HDD is mounting as user root group tape. So I cannot create folders/files in / of this drive. Couldn't figure out how to chown my way around this one, so I decided to add my user to the tape group.
Fast forward to the next evening, here is what I managed to grep from journalctl:
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser sudo[6376]: linuxuser : TTY=pts/1 ; PWD=/run/media/linuxuser ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/usermod -G tape linuxuser
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser sudo[6376]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session opened for user root by (uid=1000)
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: add 'linuxuser' to group 'tape'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'dialout'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'audio'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'video'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'cdrom'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'users'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'lpadmin'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'scanner'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'plugdev'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'fuse'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'sudo'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from group 'vboxusers'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: add 'linuxuser' to shadow group 'tape'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'dialout'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'audio'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'video'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'cdrom'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'users'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'lpadmin'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'scanner'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'plugdev'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'fuse'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'sudo'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser usermod[6378]: delete 'linuxuser' from shadow group 'vboxusers'
Mar 22 21:31:21 linuxuser sudo[6376]: pam_unix(sudo:session): session closed for user root
UPDATE: Details about the drive
It's (physically) mounted with an HDD bracket where the dvd-rom used to be and it doesn't automount with my own fstab entry (and, preferably, it shouldn't).
It has two partitions:
- sdb1: ext4 file system, user:group root:tape
- sdb2: ntfs file system, linuxuser:linuxuser (works fine)
So the issue is actually with just the first partition.
Question:
- Is this normal behaviour?
- What the frag is that tape usergroup for? :-)
- How can I mount that hdd as my own user?
Something else that might be relevant:
Please excuse me for not updating my install. Updates break things and my free time currently equals to -1. Looking forward to changing this in the future but for now I just can't afford it.
LSB_VERSION=1.4
DISTRIB_ID=Solus
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Solus"
DISTRIB_RELEASE=4.1
DISTRIB_CODENAME=fortitude
NAME="Solus"
VERSION="4.2"
ID="solus"
VERSION_CODENAME=fortitude
VERSION_ID="4.2"
PRETTY_NAME="Solus 4.2 Fortitude"
ANSI_COLOR="1;34"
HOME_URL="https://getsol.us"
SUPPORT_URL="https://getsol.us/articles/contributing/getting-involved/en/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://dev.getsol.us/"
Solus 4.2
UPDATE2: Thought that some neofetch output is relevant.
linuxuser@linuxuser
OS: Solus x86_64
Host: Inspiron 3543 A01
Kernel: 5.10.4-165.current
Uptime: 14 hours, 6 mins
Packages: 927 (eopkg), 10 (flatpak)
Shell: bash 5.1.4
Resolution: 1366x768
DE: Plasma 5.20.4
WM: KWin
WM Theme: plastik
Theme: Breeze [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3]
Icons: breeze [Plasma], breeze [GTK2/3]
Terminal: konsole
CPU: Intel i5-5200U (4) @ 2.700GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 5500
Memory: 5495MiB / 7871MiB
Bonus question: What can give neofetch output but without the logo?
K, thanks for your time reading this!
