[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#597474: Bug#597474: Auto-mounting of USB devices stopped working

[Stefan Ott]

Hi

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 07:59, Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> wrote:

> The info.interfaces seems indeed lacking on the device in the attached
> file.

Yep, it does. Do you have an idea where it should be coming from?

>> (exo-mount:7639): GLib-WARNING **: GError set over the top of a previous GError
>> or uninitialized memory.
>> This indicates a bug in someone's code. You must ensure an error is NULL before
>> it's set.
>> The overwriting error message was: Given device
>> "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_0041_3E54" is not a volume or drive
>
> That doesn't look good, but seems unrelated though.

Yup.

>> Trying to mount the device directly with exo-mount fails too:
>>
>> $ exo-mount -h /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_0041_3E54
>
> So not just automatic mounting. I guess trying to mount from thunar by
> clicking on the device appearing in the side bar (does it appear?)
> doesn't work either?

Yes, it appears and no, mounting manually from Thunar doesn't work either.

> It doesn't look like a permission problem in Xfce, more like a problem
> in hal or udev which wouldn't set the above informations. Do you
> remember a recent upgrade or configuration change on these?

Unfortunately I didn't really pay attention so no, I don't remember
any upgrades. I *did* try some (mostly unrelated, I think) packages
from experimental a while ago (xorg, radeon driver etc.) but I'm
pretty sure that things kept working normally afterwards. Also, I
recently installed fglrx but a) I'm not using it atm and b) again, I
think the system broke later - I'm not *completely* sure, though.

Today's policykit upgrade didn't help either, btw.

And I'm pretty sure this is related: I can't reboot the system from
the Xfce logout screen anymore. These are what I think to be the
corresponding lines from my ~/.xsession-errors:

** Message: xfsm-shutdown-helper.c:268: Using HAL to shutdown/reboot
the computer.
polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource
temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.0.
xfsettingsd: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X
server :0.0.

I'm sorry for not being more helpful here but I'm a little lost
between all those layers (hal, dbus, policykit etc.) and I wouldn't
really know where to look...

cheers
-- 
Stefan Ott
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