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

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>> # 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/
>>
>> Nothing comes back from that grep.  My profile is
>> default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop.  What else could be preventing me
>> from enabling that USE flag?
>
>
>
> It might be masked by the profile. As I understand it, recent EAPIs
> allow USE flags to be forced per-profile. This makes sense - a dev might
> enable USE=udev everywhere except on gentoo-freebsd profiles, just as an
> example. But I'm not yet up to speed on how to detect and over-ride such
> things.
>
> I think you should log a bug now at b.g.o. and let the devs tell you
> what's really going on with your selections.

Will do, and I'll report back with the results.

Thanks,
Grant