On 6/15/21 11:28 AM, Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 07:56:39 -0700
Fred <f...@blakemfg.com> wrote:
On 6/13/21 9:37 PM, Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
[big snip]
Hi,
I found udisks2 installed on the computer that automatically
mounts USB devices but there is no man page so I would not know
how to use it if installed on the other computer.
Not much to using it: apt-get install udisks2 and everything gets
set up. I used the defaults. Devices are mounted
under /media/"your username". If you run a panel, the udisks2
gadget shows up there with additional options. Manual unmounting
is necessary, but I use only a window manager (Openbox) and
lxpanel for my GUI, so your mileage may vary if you use a desktop
environment.
Others have shown you how to access the mans. So, I won't repeat
that.
B
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Hello,
I still need some help with this.
I installed udisks2. The last line of the installation dialog
showed what I believe is a warning, maybe of no consequence:
I did some checking -- It's been a while since I installed Beowulf
and udisks2 -- and I discovered that you need to use a "front end"
for udisks2 for it to truly automount. I used udiskie
(https://pypi.org/project/udiskie/) which must be started manually.
Installing it doesn't automatically set it up to start. I just
added a stanza to Openbox's autostart script. Since I use lxpanel
in addition to Openbox, I added the "--smart-tray" option, so
udiskie will appear in the panel when it's in use.
The computer that was upgraded from Debian Jessie to Beowulf x86
doesn't have any "front end" for udisks2 installed unless it was
installed automagically. This computer automounts USB devices
in /media as one of usb0-7. The one I am having trouble with is a
new install of Beowulf AMD64.
What desktop was the Jessie computer running before your dist-upgrade
to Beowulf? And after? Many times desktops have their own way of
handling automounting usb devices.
The usb mountpoint as /media/usb[0-7] is contrary to the default that
udisks2 uses, namely: /media/<username>/<devicename>. Jessie may have
been using udev rules to mount usb. That's the way you automounted
external devices with Wheezy at least. Jessie came with improvements.
Check /etc/udev/rules.d to see if there is anything there. udev rules
should survive a dist-upgrade.
If there is a udev rule to automount, copying it over to your new
Beowulf computer should work.
Hi,
The Jessie computer has never used any desktop/DE. Only openbox and
xterms. I never installed any utility to mount usb devices.
/etc/udev/rules.d has 70-persistent-net.rules which has one line
concerning ethernet.
ps -e shows that gvfs-udisks2-vo and udisksd are running. I don't know
what the gvfs.... program is.
man gvfs is interesting and possibly what is doing the auto mount. It
was probably installed along with gphoto2 for my camera. It is not on
the Beowulf AMD64 computer. I will try to install it and see what happens.
Best regards,
Fred
[snip]
The udisksd man page says the daemon is started by dbus-daemon or
systemd. However, it is not started by inserting a USB device. I
tried starting it manually (with USB device inserted) and received
this:
It does. You shouldn't have to manually start it. To see if
udisks2 is running and working, inset a usb thumb drive, and in a
terminal enter "udisksctl status". The thumb drive should show in
the list of other mounted devices.
udisksctl does see the thumb drive. The udisksd daemon is running
but it doesn't mount the thumb drive anywhere I can find. It does
show up in /dev as sdb.
Okay. Udisks2 is working correctly: it sees the drive; but udisks2
won't automount by itself without using a frontend utility or udev
rule.
Try mounting manually using the udisksctl "mount" command to see
if it mounts. See the udisksctl man for the details of using the mount
command.
If that works install udiskie (or set up a udev rule), start it and see
if works.
PS: There are other frontends besides udiskie. I just used it because
it was the simplest one at the time -- When I upgraded from Wheezy to
Stretch. Kept same set up when I did a clean install of Beowulf a
year ago.
B
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