On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 02:49:19PM -0300, Bruno Schneider wrote: > I've seen John's messages. > > My current understating of the problem now follows: > > - Newer Debian machines have udisks2 and not udisks. It seems udisks2 > sucks [1] and is not doing its job like it should. > - Udisks and udisks2 are incompatible but we can install both on the > same machine. Installing udisks and starting its daemon solves the > problem - media is correctly recognized and devices such as /dev/sdb1 > are created for sdcards. > > However, udisks daemon is not started automatically. I have to start > it using "udisks --enumerate" on a command line. After that, both > Gnome and XFCE work as I expect them to. > > Now, I'm trying to figure out how to have the udisks daemon started > automatically... > > [1] http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/
I don't have any DE installed: I didn't explicitly install or remove any udisks packages. root@tal:~# apt-cache policy udisks udisks: Installed: 1.0.5-1 Candidate: 1.0.5-1 Version table: *** 1.0.5-1 0 990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status root@tal:~# apt-cache policy udisks2 udisks2: Installed: (none) Candidate: 2.1.3-1 Version table: 2.1.3-1 0 990 http://ftp.nz.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main i386 Packages I have no trouble mounting USB sticks. Hope this helps in your debugging, the maintainer will be pleased with a good bug report. ;) -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140401012906.GA25733@tal