I sent this a day or 2 ago, but it doesn't show up on the list for me. Apologies to anyone seeing a duplicate.
I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My "excellent adventure" started yesterday when I got a clearout 7" tablet, and took a sample photo, and tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be found anywhere. I went to "Mr. Google" for help, and found out that MTP is the "new and improved" way of doing things. So I installed mtpfs. It works great for root, but a regular user can't mount the tablet. The mtpfs command immediately returns to the command prompt, with no error message or any other info. The tablet is not mounted... [d531][waltdnes][~] mtpfs ~/tablet [d531][waltdnes][~] Before anyone asks... 1) Yes, I have enabled FUSE in the kernel. At first I hadn't, but I got a big red warning when I tried compiling mtpfs. I tweaked and rebuilt the kernel, and rebooted, then built mtpfs. 2) Yes, I am a member of plugdev... [d531][root][~] grep plugdev /etc/group plugdev:x:247:waltdnes,user2 3) This PC uses mdev rather than udev. Could that be the problem? I've figured out a kludge to get around it. This involves issuing a few commands as root. I've added them into a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ but I'd really rather prefer a cleaner solution. [d531][root][~] mtpfs -o allow_other /home/waltdnes/tablet Device 0 (VID=0bb4 and PID=2008) is UNKNOWN. Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team Android device detected, assigning default bug flags When I was finished, I tried... [d531][waltdnes][~] fusermount -u tablet fusermount: entry for /home/waltdnes/tablet not found in /etc/mtab I had to unmount as root... [d531][root][~] fusermount -u /home/waltdnes/tablet I experienced similar problems with simple-mtpfs, so that's not a solution either. Any ideas? -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
