[SOLVED] Thunar USB Auto Browse/Mount not working

alanware · 04-15-2018, 10:06 AM

I have fresh Slackware64 14.2 install with SLiM. When I log into an account using XFCE and start Thunar I am unable to get the USB drivers to show. I have tried changing to XDM, but still doesn't work. The system sees connection of the USB drive. ConsoleKit lists a session running, which was one of the things I found to check searching around for solutions. Any insights would be appreciated.

RandomTroll · 04-15-2018, 10:39 AM

What does

Code:

df

return?

Code:

ls -l /dev/sd*

?

coralfang · 04-15-2018, 11:45 AM

Is thunar running in daemon mode?
Try running

Code:

$ thunar --daemon &

, then inserting a usb drive. If that works, then add this command to your autostart session scripts.

alanware · 04-15-2018, 12:04 PM

Code:

df
Filesystem             1K-blocks     Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                    4082668      852   4081816   1% /run
devtmpfs                 4077036        0   4077036   0% /dev
/dev/dm-1                5029504  1021408   3729568  22% /
tmpfs                    4082668        0   4082668   0% /dev/shm
cgroup_root              4082668        0   4082668   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/slack-tmp   10190136   956736   8692728  10% /tmp
/dev/mapper/slack-usr   30832636 11079640  18163748  38% /usr
/dev/mapper/slack-var   10190136    77428   9572036   1% /var
/dev/mapper/slack-home  29796412  7387920  20871880  27% /home
cgmfs                        100        0       100   0% /run/cgmanager/fs

Code:

ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root disk    8,  0 Apr 15 11:29 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk    8,  1 Apr 15 11:29 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk    8,  2 Apr 15 11:29 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 16 Apr 15 11:29 /dev/sdb
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 17 Apr 15 11:29 /dev/sdb1

RandomTroll

Code:

thunar --daemon &

Does nothing.

keefaz · 04-15-2018, 05:01 PM

Does it show up in /run/media/<username> ?

RandomTroll · 04-15-2018, 05:09 PM

You have 2 physical drives. If you have only 1 built in, /dev/sdb may be your USB drive (the case on my computer).

If so, df tells us it isn't mounted. Does /etc/fstab have an entry for /dev/sdb1 ? If so, you can just run

Code:

mount /[MountPointOfUSBDrive]

. I assign /usb to /dev/sdb1 (pretty sneaky, eh?) so I can run

Code:

 mount /usb

. If not, you can choose a mount point and run

Code:

mount /dev/sdb1 /usb

(the mount point must exist; depending on permissions, only root may have write access; one can specify permissions with mount or assign them in /etc/fstab.

If you have 2 physical drives built in, the system hasn't detected your USB drive. In that case run

Code:

lsusb

.

alanware · 04-15-2018, 07:43 PM

There is no /run/media directory.

I know how to mount the drive, I am after Thunar being able to auto browse/mount it without the need to run the mount command. I did a clean Slackware 14.2 install in a vm and everything worked fine. I also did a fresh install the the problem system and have the same issue.

allend · 04-15-2018, 09:12 PM

Code:

/dev/mapper/slack-var   10190136    77428   9572036   1% /var

Have you tried with /var on the root partition rather than on a separate partition?

alanware · 04-15-2018, 09:47 PM

allend
I am not sure what you mean.

I have instaslled from the same media with identical configurations. One on bare metal and the other into a virtual machine. The virtual machine works correctly and the bare metal does not.

The system detects the usb drive being inserted into the port. For some reason thunar cannot see it. I am setting this system up for another person to use and do not want to manually mount the drive. This works really well on my laptop and the virtual machine.

lsusb

Code:

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0781:5571 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Fit
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub

RandomTroll · 04-15-2018, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alanware

I am after Thunar being able to auto browse/mount it without the need to run the mount command.

Then my advice is beside the point. I don't know what Thunar is. I suspect Thunar is looking for instructions on which drives to mount, perhaps in a configuration file?

alanware · 04-15-2018, 11:27 PM

Thunar is XFCEs file manager.

keefaz · 04-16-2018, 09:04 AM

There was a thread some times ago with the same topic
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...nt-4175623755/

Unfortunatelly, no solution was found it seems. Which is weird because it should work out of the box

allend · 04-16-2018, 09:28 AM

Does it work if you log in to run level 3, run 'xwmconfig' and then run 'startx'?
For the mounting to work, the DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS environment variable must be set and dbus must be running.

RandomTroll · 04-16-2018, 04:41 PM

I speculate that Thunar looks for mounted drives but not mountable devices (this would be common). Thus you need to configure automount and/or autofs to mount newly-attached devices. I've never used either.

alanware · 04-16-2018, 05:49 PM

DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS

Code:

unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-6N36WK81EL,guid=8ceb0a308cfb2bf7549785d45ad5064c

ps aux | grep dbus

Code:

message+  1213  0.0  0.0  19868  2352 ?        Ss   15:23   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
localad+  1369  0.0  0.0  33000  3608 ?        S    15:23   0:00 ck-launch-session dbus-launch --exit-with-session awesome
localad+  1376  0.0  0.0  35484  2176 ?        S    15:23   0:00 dbus-launch --exit-with-session awesome
localad+  1377  0.0  0.0  19736  1972 ?        Ss   15:23   0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session
localad+  1407  0.0  0.0  11636  2080 pts/0    S+   15:27   0:00 grep dbus

Thunar does not need any mounted drives. It auto populates when you plug removable media. My other Linux installs it just works. I am trying to figure out why it isn't working on this install.