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#1 2019-06-27 16:55:30

dixoncx
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[SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

Hello,

Am having some issues with thunar and USB flash drives. eject/unmount operation is taking long (1 min+). During that time, thunar UI freezes too..

Running thunar '1.8.6' from arch linux.

As I read through docs, came to know that thunar uses gio/gvfs backend for mount/unmount/eject operations. But when I test with the Files (nautilus), unmount/eject works instantly. As the nautilus uses same gio/gvfs, issue is in thunar or some of my configurations ?

Would like to get some help in debugging the issue.

Thanks !

Last edited by dixoncx (2019-07-17 19:08:38)

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#2 2019-06-27 17:28:45

V1del
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

To cover some low hanging fruit, what are the outputs of 

hostnamectl
printenv | grep DBUS
loginctl session-status

post these in [ code ] [ /code ] tags. Any terminal output in thunar suggesting why it might take so long?

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#3 2019-07-01 17:20:43

dixoncx
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

Info requested:

[dixon@vaio-arch ~]$ hostnamectl 
   Static hostname: vaio-arch
         Icon name: computer-laptop
           Chassis: laptop
        Machine ID: bb3b7b79dc464e1ba44a4a16b49e231f
           Boot ID: 11f37e318ed84e2898f5ca0815495530
  Operating System: Arch Linux
            Kernel: Linux 5.1.15-arch1-1-ARCH
      Architecture: x86-64


[dixon@vaio-arch ~]$ printenv | grep DBUS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:path=/run/user/1000/bus


[dixon@vaio-arch ~]$ loginctl session-status
1 - dixon (1000)
           Since: Mon 2019-07-01 22:21:34 IST; 2min 15s ago
          Leader: 611 (lxdm-session)
            Seat: seat0; vc1
             TTY: tty1
         Service: lxdm; type x11; class user
           State: active
            Unit: session-1.scope
                  ├─ 611 /usr/lib/lxdm/lxdm-session
                  ├─ 625 i3
                  ├─ 638 urxvt
                  ├─ 644 python3 /usr/bin/redshift-gtk
                  ├─ 646 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
                  ├─ 649 clementine
                  ├─ 651 i3bar --bar_id=bar-0 --socket=/run/user/1000/i3/ipc-socket.625
                  ├─ 655 urxvtd -q -f -o
                  ├─ 658 i3status
                  ├─ 662 bash
                  ├─ 708 /usr/bin/redshift -v
                  ├─ 718 /usr/bin/clementine-tagreader /tmp/clementine_1362490623
                  ├─ 720 /usr/bin/clementine-tagreader /tmp/clementine_1540824978
                  ├─ 721 /usr/bin/clementine-tagreader /tmp/clementine_499930934
                  ├─ 722 /usr/bin/clementine-tagreader /tmp/clementine_588585229
                  ├─ 879 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 20190620195126>
                  ├─ 919 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 2 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─ 927 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 3 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─ 941 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─ 962 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 5 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─ 999 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 6 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─1042 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 7 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─1068 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 8 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 41 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 2019062019512>
                  ├─1174 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 9 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 5778 -prefMapSize 204997 -parentBuildID 20190620195>
                  ├─1343 /opt/sublime_text/sublime_text
                  ├─1359 /opt/sublime_text/plugin_host 1343 --auto-shell-env
                  ├─1367 urxvt
                  ├─1368 bash
                  ├─1390 urxvt
                  ├─1391 bash
                  ├─1393 thunar
                  ├─1416 loginctl session-status
                  └─1417 less

Jul 01 22:21:34 vaio-arch systemd[1]: Started Session 1 of user dixon.

I see this in terminal.. 'BLADE' is the name of the partition..

[dixon@vaio-arch ~]$ thunar

(thunar:1393): thunar-WARNING **: 22:29:02.764: Content type loading failed for BLADE: Error when getting information for file “/run/media/dixon/BLADE”: No such file or directory

Details about USB drive/partition:

[dixon@vaio-arch ~]$ sudo fdisk -l
...
Disk /dev/sdb: 7.23 GiB, 7761035264 bytes, 15158272 sectors
Disk model: Cruzer Blade    
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

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#4 2019-07-02 05:32:09

grinner
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

dixoncx wrote:

...
                  ├─1393 thunar
...

I think this may be your problem.  See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … me_Manager

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#5 2019-07-04 16:59:07

dixoncx
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

For testing, I fresh-installed archlinux into another partition, with xorg, xfce, thunar and gvfs.. Here unmount/eject for usb drives works fine (happens instantly, no freezing..) !
Looks like there is some issue with my original archlinux setup.. Still trying to figure out..

Last edited by dixoncx (2019-07-04 17:00:07)

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#6 2019-07-04 17:05:14

dixoncx
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

grinner wrote:

I think this may be your problem.  See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … me_Manager

I see that Volume Manager is for handling automount and simillar actions.. Thunar can still mount drives manually without volume manager. My issues are related to unmount/eject..

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#7 2019-07-05 12:23:02

grinner
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

I was thinking that running thunar as a daemon might help with the issue (I think that Xfce does that by default).

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#8 2019-07-17 15:48:29

dixoncx
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

grinner wrote:

I was thinking that running thunar as a daemon might help with the issue (I think that Xfce does that by default).

Oh.. i missed that part earlier..

But running as daemon also doesn't solve my issue.. Logging into xfce desktop environment also doesn't help.. (it starts thunar as daemon as you said).

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#9 2019-07-17 19:01:51

dixoncx
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Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

TL;DR
Problem solved !
By installing and launching one of 'Notification server' mentioned here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … on_servers

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I tried to debug thunar with gio debug as mentioned here
https://developer.gnome.org/gio/stable/ … -apps.html

as:

$ G_DBUS_DEBUG=all  tunar

While analyzing logs, found this timeout related to org.freedesktop.Notifications:

...
========================================================================
GDBus-debug:Call:
 >>>> ASYNC org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName()
      on object /org/freedesktop/DBus
      owned by name org.freedesktop.DBus (serial 109)
========================================================================
GDBus-debug:Message:
  >>>> SENT D-Bus message (281 bytes)
  Type:    method-call
  Flags:   none
  Version: 0
  Serial:  106
  Headers:
    path -> objectpath '/org/freedesktop/DBus'
    interface -> 'org.freedesktop.DBus'
    member -> 'RemoveMatch'
    destination -> 'org.freedesktop.DBus'
    signature -> signature 's'
  Body: ("type='signal',sender='org.freedesktop.Notifications',interface='org.freedesktop.Notifications',path='/org/freedesktop/Notifications'",)
  UNIX File Descriptors:
    (none)
  0000: 6c 01 00 01  89 00 00 00  6a 00 00 00  7c 00 00 00    l.......j...|...
  0010: 01 01 6f 00  15 00 00 00  2f 6f 72 67  2f 66 72 65    ..o...../org/fre
  0020: 65 64 65 73  6b 74 6f 70  2f 44 42 75  73 00 00 00    edesktop/DBus...
  0030: 02 01 73 00  14 00 00 00  6f 72 67 2e  66 72 65 65    ..s.....org.free
  0040: 64 65 73 6b  74 6f 70 2e  44 42 75 73  00 00 00 00    desktop.DBus....
  0050: 06 01 73 00  14 00 00 00  6f 72 67 2e  66 72 65 65    ..s.....org.free
  0060: 64 65 73 6b  74 6f 70 2e  44 42 75 73  00 00 00 00    desktop.DBus....
  0070: 08 01 67 00  01 73 00 00  03 01 73 00  0b 00 00 00    ..g..s....s.....
  0080: 52 65 6d 6f  76 65 4d 61  74 63 68 00  00 00 00 00    RemoveMatch.....
  0090: 84 00 00 00  74 79 70 65  3d 27 73 69  67 6e 61 6c    ....type='signal
  00a0: 27 2c 73 65  6e 64 65 72  3d 27 6f 72  67 2e 66 72    ',sender='org.fr
  00b0: 65 65 64 65  73 6b 74 6f  70 2e 4e 6f  74 69 66 69    eedesktop.Notifi
  00c0: 63 61 74 69  6f 6e 73 27  2c 69 6e 74  65 72 66 61    cations',interfa
  00d0: 63 65 3d 27  6f 72 67 2e  66 72 65 65  64 65 73 6b    ce='org.freedesk
  00e0: 74 6f 70 2e  4e 6f 74 69  66 69 63 61  74 69 6f 6e    top.Notification
  00f0: 73 27 2c 70  61 74 68 3d  27 2f 6f 72  67 2f 66 72    s',path='/org/fr
  0100: 65 65 64 65  73 6b 74 6f  70 2f 4e 6f  74 69 66 69    eedesktop/Notifi
  0110: 63 61 74 69  6f 6e 73 27  00                          cations'.

========================================================================
...
========================================================================
GDBus-debug:Call:
 <<<< ASYNC COMPLETE org.freedesktop.DBus.StartServiceByName() (serial 0)
      FAILED: Timeout was reached
========================================================================
...

So, guessed it might be due to not properly setting up notification server.
So tried to setup Dunst notification daemon as specified in:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/De … on_servers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dunst

And now thunar works fine ! Unmount/Eject works instantly without UI freeze.

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#10 2020-04-14 18:02:06

mkkot
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Posts: 288

Re: [SOLVED] thunar: USB drive unmount/eject

It's caused by this bug:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16690

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