[oi-dev] OI no longer automounts USB sticks

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi Gary

To understand which service might be affected by the problem, could you 
check if one either hal or rmvolmgr produce informative output?

Also another thing that might have changed is behaviour in the Mate 
components in the UI that control the mounting. What do the GUI tools 
say about mounting?

-Till

On 03.06.21 11:11, Gary Mills wrote:
> A couple of weeks ago, I upgraded my OI systems to the current version
> of OI.  Everything seemed to work, although I didn't test everything.
> Yesterday, I inserted a USB stick into one of the systems, and was
> surprised that it didn't mount.  It used to work.  This event start me
> on an investigation.
> 
> All of my USB sticks use a FAT32 filesystem and one FDISK partition.
> They all automount on Windows 10 and show no errors.  On my test OI
> system, running the 2021-05-15 version of OI, they do not automount.
> A reboot did not help.  The "fstyp" command for the :1 device shows a
> "pcfs" filesystem.  I am able to mount and umount the device as root.
> It shows the correct content.
> 
> When I booted the 2020-11-27 BE on that same system, the USB stick did
> automount.  A window popped up showing the contents of the device.  It
> also showed up in "mount | grep media".  Another USB stick also
> automounted the same way.
> 
> I conclude that something happened between those two versions of OI
> to prevent USB sticks from mounting.  I don't know what changed or
> what is missing.  Has anyone else seen the same problem?
> 
> Automounting is complicated.  These are three services that have to
> be operating properly for USB sticks to be automounted:
> 
>      $ svcs hal dbus rmvolmgr
>      STATE          STIME    FMRI
>      online         20:54:09 svc:/system/dbus:default
>      online         20:54:11 svc:/system/hal:default
>      online         20:54:11 svc:/system/filesystem/rmvolmgr:default
> 
> All three of them are online on all of my OI systems.
>