After an upgrade of xfce4 components to 4.8 and thunar to 1.2, and unmerging of hal, the media (e.g., CDs, USB sticks, etc.) are no longer discovered or automounted. I have the udev flag on, and revdep-rebuild does not report any problems. This is the emerge --info output: ====== :~> emerge --info Portage 2.1.9.25 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop, gcc-4.4.4, glibc-2.11.2-r3, 2.6.36-gentoo-r5 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.36-gentoo-r5-i686-Intel-R-_Xeon-R-_CPU_E5345_@_2.33GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.14 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 17:00:01 +0000 ccache version 2.4 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.6.6-r1, 3.1.2-r4 dev-util/ccache: 2.4-r9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.1-r2 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.14-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.65-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.4-r2 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.10 sys-devel/make: 3.81-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.36.1 (sys-kernel/linux-headers) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=prescott -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs candy ccache distlocks fixlafiles fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="en" MAKEOPTS="-j9" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X a52 aac acl acpi afs alsa berkdb branding bzip2 cairo cdr cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus dri dts dvd dvdr emacs emboss encode exif fam firefox flac foomaticdb fortran gcj gdbm gdu gif gpm gtk iconv ieee1394 imagemagick jpeg kerberos latex lcms libnotify lock mad mikmod mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap ncurses nis nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl pic png policykit ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 readline sasl sdl session spell ssl startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thunar tiff truetype udev unicode usb vorbis x264 x86 xcb xml xorg xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1 emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia vesa" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY Reproducible: Always
Likely a support question. Does ck-list-sessions lists yours as active ? Does 'udisks --mount <device name>' mount your device ?
(In reply to comment #1) > Likely a support question. Possibly, or perhaps an xfce documentation issue. However, it happens consistently on 3 different machines. > Does ck-list-sessions lists yours as active ? Yes, it does: Session5: unix-user = '111' realname = 'Jan Hrabe' seat = 'Seat1' session-type = '' active = TRUE x11-display = ':0' x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7' display-device = '/dev/tty6' remote-host-name = '' is-local = TRUE on-since = '2011-02-23T20:54:30.840736Z' login-session-id = '2' > Does 'udisks --mount <device name>' mount your device ? Yes, it does: :~> udisks --mount /dev/usbpen Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc1 at /mnt/usbpen
Have you removed the removable devices from /etc/fstab? (you should) Does `gvfs-mount` work from command-line (as a normal user, like udisks)? What's the output for `emerge -pv gvfs thunar`? (needs USE="-hal udev gdu")
Well, given 'Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdc1 at /mnt/usbpen', I'd say a line in fstab does exist - udisks mounts in media/<label>. IMHO, it's a misfeature of udisks - there's no sane way to tell udisks to mount in a different place if you don't know filesystem type beforehand but still want to use filesystem specific options. I filed a bug about it quite awhile ago upstream, but didn't get any real response yet.
(In reply to comment #3) > Have you removed the removable devices from /etc/fstab? (you should) I have commented out the devices from /etc/fstab as suggested but it made no difference. > Does `gvfs-mount` work from command-line (as a normal user, like udisks)? It does work (however, not with a link /dev/cdrom). It prints out some assertions but mounts the device. E.g.: :~>gvfs-mount -d /dev/sr0 (gvfs-mount:5560): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_mount_get_root: assertion `G_IS_MOUNT (mount)' failed (gvfs-mount:5560): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_file_get_path: assertion `G_IS_FILE (file)' failed Mounted /dev/sr0 at (null) (gvfs-mount:5560): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed (gvfs-mount:5560): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed :~>mount /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=10240k,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext2 (rw,noatime) shm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /proc/fs/vmblock/mountPoint type vmblock (rw) /dev/sr0 on /media/Tablet_CD type iso9660 (ro,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=100,iocharset=utf8,mode=0400,dmode=0500) It works similarly with the USB stick. > What's the output for `emerge -pv gvfs thunar`? (needs USE="-hal udev gdu") :~>emerge -pv gvfs thunar These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies ... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gvfs-1.6.6-r1 USE="gdu gnome http udev -archive -avahi -bash-completion -bluetooth -cdda -doc -fuse -gnome-keyring -gphoto2 -hal -iphone -samba" 0 kB [ebuild R ] xfce-base/thunar-1.2.0 USE="dbus exif libnotify pcre startup-notification udev -debug -test" XFCE_PLUGINS="trash" 0 kB Total: 2 packages (2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 kB ====== This is on a different machine, which originally did not produce any output from the ck-list-sessions, even though I use the recommended setup for xfce4 with slim. I therefore disabled xdm for now and ck-list-sessions output is correct after starting X with the startx command, identical to the first machine.
I got it finally working. In addition to all your suggestions, I also had to restart the thunar --daemon. Thanks for all the helpful comments. In conclusion, I'd suggest that the gentoo xfce4 documentation could perhaps be corrected to clarify: - how to make slim cooperate with the consolekit so X could be started automatically with the xdm script - that the fstab should not contain removable media (I'd consider this an upstream bug though) - that the thunar --daemon must be running
This is only a draft and not ready for public consumption yet: http://dev.gentoo.org/~tampakrap/hal.xml It's a convert from this forums post (first post): http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-858965-highlight-tips+tricks.html Just to point out we ARE working on the documentation howto replace HAL with the *kits and udev based functionality... That said, I'm going to close this now since it was a configuration issue. I don't consider the fstab thing a bug at all, but a welcomed feature that'll leave only the static drives to fstab and rest to udev rules. You can get fixed mountpoint by writing proper udev rule.
