13 Aug
2017
13 Aug
'17
5:09 a.m.
Hi list,
I'm on TDE R14.0.4, Mint 18 installation. If I insert any USB memory stick I get
two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows notifying me "a new medium has
been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint "/dev/sdd", the other one
"/dev/sdd1".
One of both mounts device, the other one states "unable to open device" even if
I press it first. The correct message is:
========= snip ===============
Unable to mount this device.
Potential reasons include:
Improper device and/or user privilege level
Corrupt data on storage device
Technical details:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod:
No such interface 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' on
object at path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdd
========= snip ===============
Anyone any idea where to look for this problem? Even an USB printer opens a
notifier window asking what to do with the removable device.
I already moved away the .trinity folder and logged in again without success.
Any help is appreciated
Gerhard
PS: I could try to chose 'do nothing' and check the 'always do this for this
type of media' checkbox for the non working device but I fear, that afterwards
even the correct working notification will not display any longer.
13 Aug
13 Aug
5:30 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] TDE opens "Removable Device" notifier twice
On Sunday 13 August 2017 14.09:44 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
Hi list,
I'm on TDE R14.0.4, Mint 18 installation. If I insert any USB memory stick
I get two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows notifying me "a new
medium has been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint "/dev/sdd", the other
one "/dev/sdd1". One of both mounts device, the other one states "unable
to
open device" even if I press it first.
Same here (openSuSE Leap 42.3 + TDE 14.0.4). However, I don't see the same on
my main Desktop (Debian 8 + 14.0.4).
So it must have to do with *some* configuration ... Didn't find what yet.
Thierry
5:51 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] TDE opens "Removable Device" notifier twice
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-08-13 14:30 (UTC+0200):
Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> I'm on TDE R14.0.4, Mint 18 installation. If I
insert any USB memory stick
> I get two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows notifying me "a new
> medium has been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint "/dev/sdd", the
other
> one "/dev/sdd1". One of both mounts device, the other one states
"unable to
> open device" even if I press it first.
Same here (openSuSE Leap 42.3 + TDE 14.0.4). However,
I don't see the same on
my main Desktop (Debian 8 + 14.0.4).
So it must have to do with *some* configuration ...
Didn't find what yet.
I would love to trade problems with you two. I never get any notification from
Debian or openSUSE:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2780
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6:32 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] TDE opens "Removable Device" notifier twice
On Sunday 13 August 2017, Felix Miata wrote:
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-08-13 14:30
(UTC+0200):
Yes, I'll send you one of my 2 notifiers (unfortunately you'll get the wrong
one) ;-)
Joke aside, where can I look, how can I help?
Gerhard
Gerhard Zintel wrote:
I would love to trade problems with you two. I never get any notification
from Debian or openSUSE:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2780 I'm on TDE R14.0.4, Mint 18 installation. If
I insert any USB memory
stick I get two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows notifying me
"a new medium has been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint
"/dev/sdd",
the other one "/dev/sdd1". One of both mounts device, the other one
states "unable to open device" even if I press it first.
Same here (openSuSE Leap 42.3 + TDE 14.0.4). However, I don't see the
same on my main Desktop (Debian 8 + 14.0.4).
So it must have to do with *some* configuration ... Didn't find what
yet. 
6:34 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] TDE opens "Removable Device" notifier twice
Am Sonntag, 13. August 2017 schrieb Felix Miata:
Thierry de Coulon composed on 2017-08-13 14:30
(UTC+0200):
Hi you three, welcome to the club. All my remaining linux systems are affected to some
degree of "lost" device events, not limited to TDE. The problem started ~ 2
years ago and got worse ever since. As far as I tracked it down, "something" is
consuming device events before they get sent to the netlink. I tried the C program from
this text: https://landley.net/kdocs/pending/hotplug.txt - It does not show any
notifications when an "unwanted" device is connected.
Nik
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Gerhard Zintel wrote:
> I'm on TDE R14.0.4, Mint 18 installation.
If I insert any USB memory stick
> I get two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows notifying me "a new
> medium has been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint "/dev/sdd", the
other
> one "/dev/sdd1". One of both mounts device, the other one states
"unable to
> open device" even if I press it first.
Same here (openSuSE Leap 42.3 + TDE 14.0.4).
However, I don't see the same on
my main Desktop (Debian 8 + 14.0.4).
So it must have to do with *some* configuration
... Didn't find what yet.
I would love to trade problems with you two. I never get any notification from
Debian or openSUSE:
http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/show_bug.cgi?id=2780 
9:04 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] TDE opens "Removable Device" notifier twice
On Sunday 13 August 2017 08:09:44 Gerhard Zintel wrote:
Hi list,
I'm on TDE R14.0.4, Mint 18 installation. If I insert any USB memory
stick I get two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows notifying
me "a new medium has been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint
"/dev/sdd", the other one "/dev/sdd1". One of both mounts device,
the
other one states "unable to open device" even if I press it first. The
correct message is:
========= snip ===============
Unable to mount this device.
Potential reasons include:
Improper device and/or user privilege level
Corrupt data on storage device
Technical details:
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod:
No such interface 'org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Filesystem' on
object at path /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdd
========= snip ===============
Anyone any idea where to look for this problem? Even an USB printer
opens a notifier window asking what to do with the removable device.
I already moved away the .trinity folder and logged in again without
success.
Any help is appreciated
Gerhard
PS: I could try to chose 'do nothing' and check the 'always do this
for this type of media' checkbox for the non working device but I
fear, that afterwards even the correct working notification will not
display any longer.
Thats to be expected. /dev/sdd is not normally a mountable partition,
but it does contain the partitioning data even if its only one partition
encompassing the whole device.
So you can "mount" /dev/sdd1 if the partition table data is in a format
known to mount. Obviously you can't mount a reiserfs partition by
telling mount "-t ext4". Man mount s/b your friend.
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10:06 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] TDE opens "Removable Device" notifier twice
On Sun, Aug 13, 2017 at 8:09 AM, Gerhard Zintel
<gerhard.zintel(a)mrs-thomas.de> wrote:
Hi list,
Hi, Gerhard. :^)
two icons on the desktop and two pop-up windows
notifying me "a new medium has
been detected". E.g. one icon gives hint "/dev/sdd", the other one
"/dev/sdd1".
I've had that off and on. If I "dd" an install CD/DVD image to a thumb
drive, then it will do exactly that, open both the device and the
partition.
Even if I repartition/reformat the thumb drive, it would continue to do so.
I found the tool "wipefs" would remove the extra bits that fdisk and
mkfs were missing, and then only the formatted partition would show
up.
At the same time, my USB disks will many times not be recognized as
"removable" or whatever it is in TDE that causes them to show up as an
icon on the desktop, but they're still mounted with a Konqueror
instance opening up to display the contents. I then use the command
line to "umount /dev/sdf1" when I'm done.
All that above has been on Debian Jessie, the previous Stable.
However, I just did a clean install of TDE on the latest Debian,
Stretch, and now I'm getting the same symptoms as you are. Two desktop
icons, two Konqueror windows open, one of which has the error.
I'm sure systemd is at fault somehow.
Curt-
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