On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> This is actually a portage question. How can I install udisks-2 in a >>>>> way that will fix this problem? I'm confused by how to handle the >>>>> slotting behavior. >> >> I think the issue here is that we are not understanding what the >> problem is. It happens with an application in particular, or with a >> desktop environment? It happens when you try to umount the device, or >> when you disconnect it from the computer? Do you loose data in the >> camera, or when transferring photos to your computer? Or is only that >> you don't like the error reported? > > When trying to eject a USB camera in thunar in xfce4, the error > appears and the device does not umount. Here is a command that also > produces the error: > > # udisks --detach /dev/sdb > Detach failed: Error detaching: helper exited with exit code 1: > Detaching device /dev/sdb > USB device: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/usb2/2-6) > SYNCHRONIZE CACHE: FAILED: No such file or directory > (Continuing despite SYNCHRONIZE CACHE failure.) > STOP UNIT: FAILED: No such file or directory > >> udisks is deprecated and (AFAIK) unmaintained. Do you *really* need >> it? Or perhaps is being pulled by a package that actually supports >> udisks2, but you have a USE flag that pulls udisks1? >> >> In GNOME, if you have gvfs with the gdu USE flag, it pulls libgdu, >> which pulls udisks1. But you don't actually need it; everything is >> covered by the udisks USE flag (which pulls udisks2). >> >> Do a "equery depends udisks" and see what is pulling udisks1. > > I get the following: > > # equery depends udisks > * These packages depend on udisks: > gnome-base/gvfs-1.12.3-r1 (udisks ? >=sys-fs/udisks-1.90:2) > gnome-base/libgdu-3.0.2 (=sys-fs/udisks-1.0*:0) > > # emerge -pv gvfs libgdu > [ebuild R ] gnome-base/libgdu-3.0.2 USE="-avahi -doc -gnome-keyring" 0 > kB > [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gvfs-1.12.3-r1 USE="cdda gdu http udev > -afp -archive -avahi -bluetooth -bluray -doc -fuse -gnome-keyring > -gphoto2 -ios -samba (-udisks)" 0 kB
Why is the udisks USE flag masked for gvfs? Try to emerge -C sys-fs/udisks:0, and reemerge gvfs with USE="-gdu udisks". If you get to emerge gvfs with the udisks USE flag and without the gdu one, I believe your problem will go away. Regards. -- Canek Peláez Valdés Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
