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

["Canek Peláez Valdés" <caneko@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 2:00 PM, Grant <emailgrant@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