On 17/08/2013 21:00, Grant 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
^^^^^^^
There's your problem.
thunar depends on gvfs, which can use udisks, but in your case the USE
flag is forced, masked, or removed.
You need to find out why that happened, it might be a profile thing,
maybe it's a local config. Try
grep -r udisks /etc/portage/
>
> - Grant
>
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