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Hello,
let's put the removable devices problem under a different light.
I am not using any login manager, so I directly login to the 1st VT and run startx, which in turn will run (.xinitrc):
exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session xfce4-session
No removable device is ever seen and I have to manually mount every mass storage device.
Is there any way to get this working? Can somebody provide useful troubleshooting pointers?
Thanks
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I have this in my .xinitrc and everything works fine.
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch --sh-syntax --exit-with-session startxfce4
Also make sure you are in the storage group, I think you need to belong to that group for some things.
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I am in the storage group as well, and I am using the same .xinitrc as yours but still I can't see any removable device.
I have also tried with root user but nothing is displayed. Maybe some configuration fine-tuning is necessary?
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I didn't need to fine tune anything, did you read the thread ChoK mentioned?
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Did you check that the dbus Daemon is running?
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The dbus daemon is running since boot, it is in rc.conf right after syslog-ng
I couldn't find anything useful in the other topic.
Can somebody please explain me how the whole stack works so that I can narrow down the issue?
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It looks like the correct way to launch xfce4.8 (e.g. in .xinitrc) is:
exec ck-launch-session startxfce4
The 'dbus-launch' part mentioned above is not necessary as it is done in the startxfce4 script (I was having trouble, too, so I had a look at this script). And 'xfce4-session' is likely to be the wrong call because some of this start-up stuff is missing. This seems to be a change from 4.6. So the wiki is at present mostly correct (there is still one place where 'xfce4-session' is mentioned).
Of course there may well be other teething troubles in this still young software.
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thank you gradgrind, I have removed dbus-launch as I have it running as a daemon.
I am now using again startxfce4 but still no solution.
Maybe all troubles are caused by wrong udev rules?
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There's no point at continuing this discussion here, I have seen much unconfirmed information coming through as "true". I have started the discussion at XFCE forums, they possibly have more knowledge of the internals:
http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=20774
My raw feeling is that it won't be possible to have back this feature without gvfs or hal
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