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?

- Grant