Re: Automatically mounting USB sticks

Dr Rainer Woitok <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Michael,

On Wednesday, 2026-03-18 22:09:59 +0000, you wrote:

> ...
> AFAIK it's usually a desktop functionality.  If you use Plasma launch 
> SystemSettings, go to 'Disks & Cameras' and select your preferred device auto-
> mount behaviour.

Well, I'm using Xfce, but the corresponding settings are enabled.

> If you are using a stripped down desktop rather than a full DE, then a combo 
> of a udev rule with /usr/bin/udisksctl should be able to achieve the same.

Good point:

   $ udisksctl status
   Error connecting to the udisks daemon: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.freedesktop.UDisks2: Process org.freedesktop.UDisks2 received signal 5
   $

So after lots of searching, trying and head scratching I again downgrad-
ed "sys-fs/udisks"  and one of its dependencies  ("sys-apps/util-linux")
which had been upgraded together with it  and rebooted using my previous
kernel where everything had worked up to now, but to my big surprise now
any call to "udisksctl" with some argument  produces the same error mes-
sage as above and nothing is mounted!

What's going on here?  Malfunctioning hardware?   Or one of the other 64
packages I upgraded on Tuesday?  But which one?

Befuddled,
  Rainer
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