On 2025-10-31 17:00:43 +0100 Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Patrick,
sorry it is taking so long, I am trying to understand what is going
on at
your side!
Do not be sorry, I had family at home, so I was long too... ;-)
Patrick Cardona wrote:
Before You asked, I tought I did not, but as I searched in the
installed
packages list, I found "udisks2" and its libraries was installed, so
I
guess this is a dependency side effect, but not in the list I was
aware
when building AGNoStep Desktop.
Is it "interfering" somehow? if you insert something will it show in
/etc/mtab? I will mount disks usually automatically in a different
place,
e.g. /usr/media or /media?
I was able to get GWorkspace get along with an automounter too, but
it is a
bit different and each time a different tweak.
I did not see any change in /etc/mtab unless I did myself a mounting
action. I think 'udisks2' is there to inteact with GTK or KDE desktops
with DBus explicit queries:
Althougt I use DBusKit for the notifications with SimpleAgenda, I do
not know any other GNUstep application using it.
See:
https://documentation.ubuntu.com/core/explanation/system-snaps/udisks2/
...
The disk CRUCIAL is not plugged.
patrick@pi400:~ $ cat /etc/mtab | grep -e "/mnt/CRUCIAL"
patrick@pi400:~ $ echo $?
1
Nothing found.
Plugging the CRUCIAL disk.
Shortcut #E
The two disks icons (CRUCIAL and CLEPAT) are shown on the Desktop.
That is a mystery.
Please check SystemPreferences Volumes.
- under reserved mount types you should have just system stuff: proc,
shm and
suc suff. I also have usbdevfs (don't remember what it is)
Reserved mount types are:
proc
devpts
shm
usbdevfs
devpts (weird: twice!)
sysfs
tmpfs
- under removable media you should have only /mnt/CRUCIAL and
/mnt/CLEPAT
That is the case.
then you should have /etc/mtab set
mtab path is:
/etc/mtab
I have a doubt: what are CRUCIAL and CLEPAT ? two USB disks ? are the
UUID
correct?
Yes, because they should not mount nor let see contents with bad UUID.
Question other way around. If you use just a command line and do
mount, if
you plug in one or the other, do they land correctly in the
respective mount
points?
Yes.
- CRUCIAL is a SATA BX500 2.5 SSD disk, mounted with a Sabrent SSD TO
USB 3.0 adaptator.
Manually mounting from a shell after the disk was plugged:
$> mount /mnt/CRUCIAL
The relevant icon disk is shown by itself on the Desktop (and only
this icon): I did not have to use #E.
Browsing the content is ok.
Unmounting from the shell:
$> umount /mnt/CRUCIAL
The relevant icon disk desappeared from the Desktop: again, I did not
have to use #E.
- CLEPAT is a USB stick.
Manually mounting from a shell after the stick was plugged:
$> mount /mnt/CLEPAT
The relevant icon disk is shown by itself on the Desktop (and only
this icon): I did not have to use #E.
Browsing the content is ok.
Unmounting from the shell:
$> umount /mnt/CLEPAT
The relevant icon disk desappeared from the Desktop: again, I did not
have to use #E.
Cheers,
Patrick
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Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux aarch64 (Debian 13.1)
Xorg (1:7.7+24) - libcairo2 (1.18.4-1+rpt1 arm64)
Window Maker (0.96.0) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: AGNOSTEP
- MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)
