Hi all, Currently I'm facing a problem with the Device Notifier, which doesn't show the mounted devices of my users. My scenario is a bit complex, but resuming, my aim is to have one server and multiple thin-clients connected to it and use KDE. Only the server runs KDE sessions and it creates one per user. All this works fine, but when one of these clients stick in an USB drive, even if it actually is mounted, the user can browse thru it, etc, it's not shown up on the 'Device Notifier' applet.
My KDE version is 4.3.4 (yes, I'm aware it's an old version, but due to the above explaination, which uses a very specific hardware configuration, this version of KDE is a must). Making some tests, turns out that the USB drive is recognized by the 'udisks' tool, so if I call 'udisks --dump' I see this information related to the device: Code: Select all <https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=121940&sid=be5c70b8d28ba04cde88bba8a487093b#>added: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/utdisk1 Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/utdisk1 native-path: /sys/devices/virtual/block/utdisk1 device: 251:1 device-file: /dev/utdisk1 presentation: /dev/utdisk1 detected at: mié 09 jul 2014 13:05:18 WEST system internal: 0 removable: 1 has media: 1 (detected at mié 09 jul 2014 13:05:18 WEST) detects change: 1 detection by polling: 1 detection inhibitable: 1 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 0 mount paths: mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 1 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 4284481536 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: type: version: uuid: label: partition table: scheme: mbr count: 1 drive: vendor: model: revision: serial: WWN: detachable: 0 can spindown: 0 rotational media: Yes, unknown rate write-cache: unknown ejectable: 0 adapter: Unknown ports: similar devices: media: compat: interface: (unknown) if speed: (unknown) ATA SMART: not available added: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/utdisk1p1 Showing information for /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/utdisk1p1 native-path: /sys/devices/virtual/block/utdisk1/utdisk1p1 device: 251:2 device-file: /dev/utdisk1p1 presentation: /dev/utdisk1p1 by-id: /dev/disk/by-uuid/25E6-DE47 detected at: mié 09 jul 2014 13:05:23 WEST system internal: 0 removable: 0 has media: 1 (detected at mié 09 jul 2014 13:05:23 WEST) detects change: 0 detection by polling: 0 detection inhibitable: 0 detection inhibited: 0 is read only: 0 is mounted: 1 mount paths: /tmp/SUNWut/mnt/nicolas/noname mounted by uid: 0 presentation hide: 0 presentation nopolicy: 1 presentation name: presentation icon: size: 4284481536 block size: 512 job underway: no usage: filesystem type: vfat version: FAT32 uuid: 25E6-DE47 label: USB20FD partition: part of: /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/utdisk1 scheme: mbr number: 1 type: 0x0c flags: offset: 24576 alignment offset: 0 size: 4284481536 label: uuid: On the other hand, the 'solid-hardware list' command (which seems to be the KDE's hardware control tool) doesn't list this device, which I guess is the problem. I also tried sticking the USB device to the server instead of the client, and it gets mounted and notified. So it's just the case where the user sticks in the USB drive into the thin-client and it gets mounted this way where it it's not shown. Being stuck at this situation, I'd like to ask some questions to debug this: 1) What mechanism uses the 'Device notifier' to work? I mean, is it listening to HAL/UDEV/... and whenever something changes, it shows it up? 2) Is there a way to manually notify a storage device, so it's shown upon some user's action to force it being shown? Any help related with this will be very appreciated. Thanks!
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