Current-x64: Thunar no longer mounts USB disks

davleema · 04-23-2017, 06:20 AM

After getting the latest batch of updates, I found that my Slack-current laptop no longer automounts USB disks. On my XFCE desktop, I now get a permanent "floppy" icon (no idea why), but that can not be mounted as user, as only root can mount floppies.

In the console messages, I see this:

Code:

Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor
exited with status 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25) thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type "usb".                                                                                                                                                                                               

Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitorexited
with status 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25) thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type "usb-storage".
                                                                                      
Error creating proxy: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor:
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.Spawn.ChildExited: Process org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor
exited with status 127 (g-dbus-error-quark, 25) thunar-volman: Unknown block device type "disk".

So, suddenly Thunar no longer knows anything about usb-storage or disks ?

For clarity, my USB disks worked just fine before the update. And when I check dmesg, the kernel does show messages about the USB disk being connected, and I can mount it the old-fashioned way as root (mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdisk). It's only the "automounting-fuser-magic" that no longer works.

Any idea how to fix this ?

Thx,

David

volkerdi · 04-24-2017, 04:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davleema

So, suddenly Thunar no longer knows anything about usb-storage or disks ?

For clarity, my USB disks worked just fine before the update. And when I check dmesg, the kernel does show messages about the USB disk being connected, and I can mount it the old-fashioned way as root (mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/usbdisk). It's only the "automounting-fuser-magic" that no longer works.

Any idea how to fix this ?

On x64 -current here, I have no floppy icon, and USB automounting works as expected in Thunar. About all I can suggest is to make sure that you've got all the latest updates, as libthunarx-2 links in quite a few things.