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
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> - From $PORTDIR/profiles/base/package.use.mask:
>>>>>
>>>>> # GNOME <gnome@gentoo.org> (02 Oct 2012)
>>>>> # Mask USE="udisks" and use USE="gdu" as the default for <gnome-base/gvfs-1.14;
>>>>> # older gvfs releases have problems with recent stable udisks:2 (bug #463792)
>>>>> <gnome-base/gvfs-1.14 udisks
>>>>
>>>> OK, there it is.  If I keyword gvfs I get into trouble because
>>>> gobject-introspection wants <dev-libs/glib-2.33 and gvfs wants
>>>>> =dev-libs/glib-2.36.
>>>
>>>
>>> Don't keyword gvfs,
>>>
>>> for gvfs:
>>>
>>> USE="-udisks gdu"
>>>
>>> gvfs doesn't care what does the automounting, as long as something does
>>
>> That's what I have now and I have this ejecting problem.  Should I
>> just emerge udisks-2 into a new slot?
>
>
> I have a hunch that won't work and USE="udisks" is hard masked for gvfs.
> Logic tells me that even if udisks:2 is available, gvfs won't use it.
>
> But, it's worth a try.

I tried but no luck.  I should hear from the maintainer soon.

Another SLOT question.  udisks:0 was installed and now udisks:2.  What
about slot #1?

- Grant


> I also think you need the maintainer to take a closer look - it all
> looks like the ebuild needs some tweaking, or maybe it's just a magic
> combination of USE that we missed.