Mounting and Unmounting USB drives [Solved]

mich04 · 2011-10-25 11:20:28

HI there:
I want a program like in KDE that will automaticly mount and allow me to click to unmount my usb drives. I am building machines and I need them to be user friendly and fast. I am running openbox 3.5 with a lxpanel right now. Also how do you allow users to access the usb drives. Here is an example of an error. I am logged in as usera. I fire up shotwell plug in my camera. It detects it I click on the camera and it says
"Shotwell
Unable to fetch previews from the camera:
I/O problem (-7)"

I log in as root it works perfectly. I hope this all makes sense.

Last edited by mich04 (2011-10-27 23:36:30)

heatblazer · 2011-10-25 11:21:38

try if you are having dbus running in your daemons.

mich04 · 2011-10-25 11:58:54

I do not understand your post? Are you asking me if I have dbus running in my daemons, because I do have it in there.

mich04 · 2011-10-25 12:06:42

So I guess my problem is bigger than I thought, I had not tried my cdrom until just now. I installed clementine and I can not find the cd anywhere. What is going on here? What do I need to configure to perform all of these actions?

berbae · 2011-10-25 12:28:14

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … s_Wrappers
You should find what you are looking for there.
Personally I use udisksvm which is graphical and can mount/unmount devices with a mouse click as user.
But there are others, but they may not be as convenient to un-mount without CLI as udisksvm.

Last edited by berbae (2011-10-25 12:30:40)

whompus · 2011-10-25 12:33:02

I use obdevicemenu which I find to be excellent.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114702

mich04 · 2011-10-25 15:15:35

Ok here is another question, why can't I use Thunar file manager? I have downloaded the vol plugin and I have configured it to automaticly mount things when they are inserted. Thunar- edit-preferences-advanced- "enable volume management , then configure and checked all the boxes. I think I am having a problem with the permissions on my libusb files.

hellomynameisphil · 2011-10-25 15:51:24

I wonder if your user needs to be in the storage group.

AliWam · 2011-10-25 16:35:09

How do you start openbox?

I am using startx with this ~/.xinitrc

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session

and it works well.

Have a look here.

mich04 · 2011-10-25 19:50:01

I have all of those settings in place.

mich04 · 2011-10-25 19:58:42

So here are some things that I have noticed. My device is showing up in the folder /dev/disk/by-uuid also in the shotwell program when I plug my camera it also pops up in there it says nikon.XXX I click on it says can not fetch pictures. When I am in root I can fetch the pictures, but still can not access my usb drive.

mich04 · 2011-10-25 21:42:12

ok so I can mount using the terminal that is a start to get my information I need. Now if one of my partitions is jfs I type mount -t jfs /dev/sdb4 /mnt/storage but it is telling me wrong fs type.

mich04 · 2011-10-26 04:13:42

well I got it to work, well half of it. I installed udiskie than I went into ~/.xinitrc and I added "udiskie &" before "exec openbox-session" and now shotwell can download pictures form my camera, I am still looking into a program to mount and unmount my drives. I looked at udisksvm but it requires hal, and it seems that they are doing away with hal so I need to find a more up to date solution.

ewaller · 2011-10-26 06:16:46

AliWam wrote:

How do you start openbox?
I am using startx with this ~/.xinitrc
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
and it works well.
Have a look here.

mitch04 wrote:

I went into ~/.xinitrc and I added "udiskie &" before "exec openbox-session"

mitch04. wrote:

I have all of those settings in place.

Could you please correlate those quotes for me? (Hint: I think you may have missed the subtlety of AliWam's suggestion)

Last edited by ewaller (2011-10-26 06:17:24)

berbae · 2011-10-26 09:12:49

mich04 wrote:

I looked at udisksvm but it requires hal, and it seems that they are doing away with hal so I need to find a more up to date solution

udisksvm doesn't require hal.
It needs only udev, dbus, udisks, traydevice (from AUR) and bash>=4.0
Where did you see it requires hal?
The link in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46572

Last edited by berbae (2011-10-26 09:14:48)

mich04 · 2011-10-26 11:09:27

I am sorry I could have sworn that I saw that in one of the wikis, How do I install trydevice after I have run makepkg? I keep getting the error.
# python setup.py install
File "setup.py" , line 43
print 'patching file:` + file_to_patch
^
SyntaxError: invailid syntax

I am looking at line 43 but can't tell what is wrong.

mich04 · 2011-10-26 11:11:45

It looks like ` is causing the problems but why?

skunktrader · 2011-10-26 11:30:59

Could be a python 2 / 3 mismatch.
Try

python2 setup.py install

instead

mich04 · 2011-10-26 11:32:31

It did start to work but gave me this error.

"ValueError: Data must be installed under /usr directory"

Last edited by mich04 (2011-10-26 12:31:18)

berbae · 2011-10-26 16:20:18

mich04 wrote:

It did start to work but gave me this error.
"ValueError: Data must be installed under /usr directory"

I don't understand quite well what you mean here: what starts to work?
The PKGBUILD from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32005 uses python2.
Did you install traydevice 1.5.2-2 from AUR?

The ValueError message comes from where?

mich04 wrote:

How do I install trydevice after I have run makepkg?

You install it with:

pacman -U traydevice-1.5.2-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

when makepkg has built the package file.

Edit: I just tried to rebuild traydevice to be sure, and the package file was generated without errors.

Last edited by berbae (2011-10-26 16:29:12)

mich04 · 2011-10-27 00:01:09

holy crap where did that command come from? I thought I was installing it when I ran makepkg -s, but that only builds the package for my system? I did the same command for it and have everything installed now. So how do I run udisksvm now?

I have lxpanel

Last edited by mich04 (2011-10-27 00:01:53)

Slyder · 2011-10-27 03:16:20

AliWam wrote:

How do you start openbox?
I am using startx with this ~/.xinitrc
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
and it works well.
Have a look here.

Nice! I just installed Xfce on my new netbook (I use awesome WM and a different automounting solution for my other Arch box) and adding "dbus-launch" right before "startxfce4" on the line that reads:

"exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4"

fixed my problem.

I'm a little confused though, in the wiki it says that, "In case you are wondering, dbus-launch will be launched by the xinitrc.d code at the beginning of the file...." https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xfce

My .xinitrc is functionally the same as the example in the wiki, so I had thought that somehow dbus-launch wouldn't be necessary. Oh well, it's working now and that's all that matters, thanks for your suggestion AliWam!

jasonwryan · 2011-10-27 03:20:38

mich04 wrote:

holy crap where did that command come from?

It's part of the mystery that is Arch...

mich04 · 2011-10-27 12:24:51

edited: rm solved: Sorry false alarm

Last edited by mich04 (2011-10-27 15:56:42)

berbae · 2011-10-27 13:30:09

mich04 wrote:

Solved

Write that editing the title of your first post, rather than here.

The script udisksvm comes with a README file : /usr/share/udisksvm/README

mich04 wrote:

I want a program like in KDE that will automaticly mount and allow me to click to unmount my usb drives.

Can you confirm that is solved, please? Feedback is always interesting.

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Mounting and Unmounting USB drives [Solved]

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