Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Advice needed regarding udisks

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 17/08/2013 09:57, 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.


emerge udisks:2


A SLOT is treated as two different packages that just happen to have the
same name, so there's a ":<something>" appended to differentiate them.

Other packages that use udisks will define which SLOT they DEPEND on in
their ebuild, if it's important to distinguish them that way.







> 
> - Grant
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm having a problem detaching a USB camera from a desktop.  I found a
>> Ubuntu bug for the problem which states that it is a bug in udisks-1
>> which won't be fixed upstream and the solution is to upgrade to Ubuntu
>> 12.10 which uses udisks-2.  Can anyone recommend a good course of
>> action for me here?
>>
>> Here is the problem:
>>
>> # 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
>>
>> Here is a pretend emerge of udisks:
>>
>> # emerge -pv udisks
>> [ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/gptfdisk-0.8.6  USE="icu ncurses -static" 0 kB
>> [ebuild  NS    ] sys-fs/udisks-2.1.0:2 [1.0.4-r5:0] USE="gptfdisk
>> introspection -cryptsetup -debug (-selinux) -systemd" 0 kB
>>
>> Here is the Ubuntu bug describing the problem (comments 81, 82, 85):
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/udisks/+bug/466575
>>
>> - Grant
> 


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