[gentoo-user] xfce4 automount usb doesn't work

[t***@sys-concept.com]

When USB is inserted, the icon appears on a desktop but it is not aouto mounted.

In settings: Removable Drive and Media -->
- Mount removable drive when hot-plugged (is checked)

Does it have something to do with dbus?

[Matt Connell]

Post by t***@sys-concept.com
When USB is inserted, the icon appears on a desktop but it is not aouto mounted.
In settings: Removable Drive and Media -->
- Mount removable drive when hot-plugged (is checked)
Does it have something to do with dbus?

My first guess is permissions. Can you mount the drive in Thunar by
clicking on it in the side panel?

[t***@sys-concept.com]

Post by Matt Connell

Post by t***@sys-concept.com
When USB is inserted, the icon appears on a desktop but it is not aouto mounted.
In settings: Removable Drive and Media -->
- Mount removable drive when hot-plugged (is checked)
Does it have something to do with dbus?

My first guess is permissions. Can you mount the drive in Thunar by
clicking on it in the side panel?

Yes, when the usb-icon appears on desktop, right clicking on it allows me to mount it.

On the system that works correctly, when I insert the USB I get:

[822766.172299] sda: sda1
[822766.173269] sd 4:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
[822776.321898] EXT4-fs (sda1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: errors=remount-ro

On the newly updated system I get only:

[12095.359150] sdb: sdb1
[12095.359219] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

[Wol]

Post by t***@sys-concept.com
Yes, when the usb-icon appears on desktop, right clicking on it allows me to mount it.

Dunno as I'd define it as "works correctly". Works as desired, sure. My
system (KDE) throws a pop-up up that says "what do you want to do?".
That, I think, is the default with which I am quite happy.

I'd rather (for *KNOWN* usb-sticks) put an entry in fstab.

Cheers,
Wol

[Neil Bothwick]

Post by Wol
Dunno as I'd define it as "works correctly". Works as desired, sure. My
system (KDE) throws a pop-up up that says "what do you want to do?".
That, I think, is the default with which I am quite happy.
I'd rather (for *KNOWN* usb-sticks) put an entry in fstab.

KDE has an option to automount known devices when they are plugged in or
on boot, while others give the popup.

[t***@sys-concept.com]

Post by Matt Connell

Post by t***@sys-concept.com
When USB is inserted, the icon appears on a desktop but it is not aouto mounted.
In settings: Removable Drive and Media -->
- Mount removable drive when hot-plugged (is checked)
Does it have something to do with dbus?

My first guess is permissions. Can you mount the drive in Thunar by
clicking on it in the side panel?

Does user need to be in group: plugdev for it to work.

On my other older system USB automount works correctly and I'm not in a group plugdev

[Matt Connell]

Does user need to be in group:  plugdev for it to work.

I'm fairly confident that you do, yes.

"Udisks uses polkit to handle permissions. Make sure each user is in
the plugdev group"

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udisks#Configuration

[t***@sys-concept.com]

Post by Matt Connell

Does user need to be in group:  plugdev for it to work.

I'm fairly confident that you do, yes.
"Udisks uses polkit to handle permissions. Make sure each user is in
the plugdev group"
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udisks#Configuration

None of my systems have even acct-group/plugdev installed
and no user is in plugdev group

Two of the system mounts USB automatically (correctly) when USB is plugged-in, one updated last Dec. and one yesterday.
Third computer upgraded yesterday but USB doesn't auto-mount automatically.

One of my remote computer stop automounting USB all of a sudden as well, even though I did not change any setting it happen after I installed gnome-extra/zenity