Re: Can't find media on USB storage

[Chris Bannister <cbannister@slingshot.co.nz>]

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. ;)

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