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#1 2011-01-17 20:47:45

leberyo
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Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Just installed XFCE 4.8 today.  I tried using a USB thumb drive and didn't see its icon on the desktop.  I know XFCE was planning on not using HAL for Thunar and moving to UDEV.  Do I just need to create UDEV rules now to use auto mounting etc?  In the past I was having problems because my partitions are set up as UUIDs in my fstab file instead of sdba1.

Thx

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#2 2011-01-17 21:46:45

whatshisname
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Check the wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Udev

I, too, run XFCE and use the "/etc/udev/rules.d/11-media-by-label-with-pmount.rules" as described here:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … n-mounting

Automounting works fine.

I just can't get it to unmount without going to the command line.

[Edit]

To clarify, I can't right-click on the device in Thunar and click "unmount" without throwing up an error.

However, I just found out I can just jerk the memory stick from the usb socket and all is well!  To test, I created a sample file on the stick, removed it, plugged it back in and the new file was there so I presume this is ok to do?

I thought this was not good practice, however, and goes against years of habit.

Last edited by whatshisname (2011-01-17 22:23:49)

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#3 2011-01-17 22:31:22

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Well I created that udev rule and still no go.  I also added my username there instead of the "tomk" they have listed in the example.
Any idea why?

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#4 2011-01-17 22:36:23

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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Did you install pmount?

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#5 2011-01-17 22:36:54

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Yes sir.

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#6 2011-01-17 22:37:50

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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Do any of the other example udev rules work?

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#7 2011-01-17 22:38:35

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

No.

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#8 2011-01-17 22:40:59

wonder
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

so much nonsense in this thread.

if the user is authorized to consolekit in the right way and usb sticks are not mounted, then is a bug. there are severals threads in the forum( a post is in the thread were the xfce 4.8 pre was announced and the primary developer of xfce replied)


Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.

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#9 2011-01-17 22:45:09

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Thanks for the help...
This is why I posted in the newbie forum.

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#10 2011-01-17 22:55:22

GRem
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

I updated to 4.8 as soon I as could. This happened to me as well, USB sticks wouldn't mount.
The removable drives section of the settings window didn't work, it simply didn't pop up anything.

After a short while, alunn notified me of a thunar-volman update. Did said update, then the removable drives config applet worked again. Every setting was reset to "off" though. Checked the boxes I needed, and now the drives work normally.

Check your thunar-volman just in case.

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#11 2011-01-17 23:03:49

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Just updated thunar-volman and still doesn't show up after I checked all the relevant options on "removable storage".  I also checked whether I'm in the correct groups, and I'm listed in disk, storage and uucp which should take care of the ownership issues.  I can't figure this out...

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#12 2011-01-17 23:12:01

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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

How are you starting Xfce? For .xinitrc try using:

exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startxfce4

Also make sure you have gvfs installed.

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#13 2011-01-17 23:35:53

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

I don't have gvfs installed.  Is that necessary, it carries a lot of Gnome dependencies with it...

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#14 2011-01-17 23:41:03

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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Its an optdepends for Thunar:

gvfs: for trash support, mounting with udisk and remote filesystems

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#15 2011-01-17 23:49:55

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Ok, I have /media/usbhd-sdb listed with the contents of my usb drive.  How come XFCE doesn't display the drive on the desktop though?  It should pick it up automatically shouldn't it?
Even Thunar is not displaying the drive...

Last edited by leberyo (2011-01-17 23:54:01)

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#16 2011-01-18 01:00:51

whatshisname
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

I did a system upgrade since I first replied to you in this thread and in the process went up to XFCE 4.8 myself.

I immediately began having problems with thunar and USB devices.

After a suggestion by another forum member, I solved my problems by deleting the UDEV rule I suggested you use.

If you're still using that rule, either rename or delete it and do a:

"udevadm control restart" as root.

Maybe that will help.  I see my USB drive in both Thunar and on the desktop.

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#17 2011-01-18 01:04:26

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Deleted the rule and ran the command, still not working.  The pmount rule was working but the desktop environment wasn't picking it up...

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#18 2011-01-18 17:19:31

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

I ran sudo thunar and when plugging in my usb stick, I get :
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Could not detect the volume corresponding to the device.

I've installed udisks and udiskie, and I've added udiskie to my xinitric file.

Last edited by leberyo (2011-01-18 17:24:15)

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#19 2011-01-18 17:47:01

whatshisname
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Have you tried a different USB device?  Maybe we're having a hardware incompatibility problem here.

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#20 2011-01-18 17:49:51

leberyo
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

Tried 2 different USB sticks...
Also my CD drive isn't showing up.

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#21 2011-01-18 22:22:53

Doehni
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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

We have the same problem over here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=880018

Last edited by Doehni (2011-01-18 22:23:28)

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#22 2011-01-30 20:04:52

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Re: Installed XFCE 4.8; USB no Mounting...

anonymous_user wrote:

How are you starting Xfce? For .xinitrc try using:

exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session startxfce4

Also make sure you have gvfs installed.

Hey, Just to inform i was having the same problem but anonymous_user's post is the fix.
(p.s there is 5 dependencies for gvfs,  libsoup-gnome gnome-disk-utility libcdio fuse libarchive, 2 of which got pulled in after a default xfce4 install)

Logout/in and instantly works for mounting removable media without hal big_smile


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