Slackware64-current, Xfce, automount stopped working
 

Hi,

It's been around one month that the automount stopped working.
All seems fine in dmesg, everything is ok in Xfce configuration.
I don't know what went wrong.
I'm not using multilib.
I removed ./config/xfce4/ , without effect.

Any idea welcome.

Have you done a thread search? I suspect not.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ng-4175488477/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...r-xfce-867299/
andan elementary web search finds you other very promising stuff.

I already saw the first one, wasn't helpful.
Not the second one, but it's useless in my case.
I also googled out without success.

KDE doesn't mount either.

Strange. Auto mounting working fine here on all of my Slackware64-current units with XFCE. Have you installed all new and updated security patches?

I'm up-to-date.
Only one computer of mine has this problem.
I lack a bit of knowledge about udev, it may be linked to it but i don't know how to check that.

Have you tried using udiskctl to monitor what happens? IIRC, Thunar uses udisks to mount and unmount USB sticks (I could be very wrong about this). udiskctl is a great program to diagnose issues with automounting. I've had similar issues before but unfortunately it was long ago and I don't remember what I did to fix the issue. Nevertheless I hope this helps.

Have you the latest 4.19.36 kernel?Because Isuspect that have problem with udev,now I not have touchpad and boot time is more als 1 minute and i cannot reboot and shutdown.
With 4.19.35 all was ok and boot time was normal

shows no activity, contrary to dmesg.

I'm on 5.0.7

I expected some update to solve this problem, but it still occurs.
Any help is welcome.

That's 274 days with that issue... :confused:

Wouldn't take that long backing up home, download and install latest... http://bear.alienbase.nl/mirrors/slackware-live/latest/

Do you have the problem if you create a new user?

Just for the record, I have 4.19.59 from July's current and no issues with udev. That's true on the generic kernel, or on my own home-rolled lightweight version.

Excuse me if I'm stating the obvious here, but assuming you are using slackpkg to update your system, have you used "install-new" as well as "update-all"?

I use udisks (udisksctl) to mount and unmount and it stopped working a few days ago. A quick search took me here: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ng-4175665924/

While the subject issue is not directly related, the actual problem with polkit was the answer (I forgot to run install-new). Given how long you've been experiencing the problem, it's probably not related but still worth a look.

Insert some external media and try "udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdXx" and see if it throws a polkit error.
Edit: I'm running -current with 5.4.3

I have the same behavior with a new user.

That error indicates the device doesn't exist:
One that does exists and is mounted already should show something like this:
One that isn't already mounted should show this:
I don't know what it looks like if there's some other issue.