[Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

Tue Jan 31 15:39:38 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 31/01/12 14:15 did gyre and gimble:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Colin Guthrie at 31/01/12 13:50 did gyre and gimble:
+>> 'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 31/01/12 13:32 did gyre and gimble:
+>>> On 01/31/2012 07:23 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>>>>
+>>>> I've just found that if you right-click on the device notifier panel
+>>>> icon and select Settings, then Removable Media, there is an option to
+>>>> automount removable media which  is not checked.  I'll bet the default
+>>>> for this changed with the latest KDE upload.  Still doesn't explain
+>>>> why LXDE has problems, tho.
+>>>>
+>>> There is no joy in Mudville: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4361
+>>
+>> I suspect the problem is somewhere in gvfs or below. I believe LXDE uses
+>> gvfs so this would explain why both it and GNOME are affected..
+>>
+>> Certainly running:
+>> gvfs-mount -oi
+>>
+>> does not show any events when plugging/unplugging a USB disk.
+>>
+>> Something to investigate - I don't really have time right now.
+> 
+> OK, so basically it's due to the switch form using the gdu volume
+> monitor backend to the udisks2 one.
+> 
+> As gnome-disk-utility was updated, it no longer offers the gdu volume
+> monitor....
+> 
+> So you *will* need udisks2 installed (no requires yet), but even then it
+> is not working for me...
+> 
+> udisks2 does see the drives being plugged in (udisksctl monitor) but
+> it's not getting through to gvfs.
+> 
+> Grepping for udisks2 in gvfs's configure does not show any results... so
+> the problem is our gvfs does not support udisks...
+> 
+> To the git tree batman!!!
+
+OK, so I packaged a git snapshot of gvfs with the udisks2 media monitor
+support merged. Works fine for me. Submitted for build.
+
+Seems Funda tried to do this before but didn't actually check that the
+codebase included the udisks2 backend. It did not.
+
+Also had to fix some format security errors too which I'll push upstream.
+
+Must get back to work now!!
+
+Col
+
+
+
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