[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#728065: Bug#728065: Bug#728065: thunar: USB and eSATA devices not seen by Thunar

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 21:26 -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 10/29/2013 12:23 AM, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> > Actually, that's not a good test. Thunar only supports/shows USB Mass
> > Storage devices, which Canon cameras are not (they use some proprietary
> > canon protocol on USB mode, or PTP on PTP mode). You need to interface
> > with it using gphoto2, which is what Shotwell is actually doing.
> 
> I assume the explanation also applies to the Xfce desktop (?).

Yes.
> 
> 
> It would be nice if Xfce and Thunar supported Canon cameras.  We have 
> several, and I'm migrating our SOHO desktops to debian-7.2-i386-xfce.

Afaik that's not possible on Wheezy.

On Jessie+, iirc, gphoto devices should appear in Thunar once they are
gio/gvfs-mounted, that has to be done manually or in thunar-volman (and
it's broken right now because of 
> 
> 
> > Can you check:
> > - if the USB drive is correctly seen by the kernel (shows in dmesg, can
> > be mounted manually)
> > - if the USB drive is correctly seen by udisks (I think it's someting
> > like udisks --dump, and udisks --monitor can help too).
> 
> I tested the Seagate FreeAgent XTreme external hard drive against a few 
> Debian 7 installations:
> 
> 1.  Intel D945GNT motherboard with fairly recent and lightly used 
> install of Debian 7 amd64 (system used for initial bug report) -- 
> hotplug works correctly via both USB and Firewire.  (Machine does not 
> have eSATA port.)  This doesn't match my earlier findings.  I don't know 
> why.
> 
> 2.  Intel D945GNT motherboard with fresh install (yesterday and today) 
> of Debian 7 i386 -- hotplug works correctly via both USB and Firewire.
> 
> 3.  Intel DQ67SWB3 motherboard with older (December 2012, possibly 
> pre-Stable?) and heavily used install of Debian 7 amd64 -- hotplug works 
> correctly for USB, but fails for eSATA.
> 
> […]
> So, it appears that the kernel is not seeing eSATA hotplug events (?).
> 

The diffs are not really readable, but if the kernel doesn't see the
hotplug events, there's not much chance anything userland can do
anything, so it looks more like a kernel issue. It might help to try
with a more recent kernel (I assume you're using a stock Debian
kernel?).
> 
> I am in the process of preparing to wipe and rebuild the machine having 
> the eSATA problems.  I'll report when I have more information.
> 
Ok.
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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