[oi-dev] OI no longer automounts USB sticks

[Andreas Wacknitz]

On 6/4/21 10:11 PM, Gary Mills wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 07:31:20AM -0500, Gary Mills wrote:
>> I found a document that might help.  It describes:
>>
>>      lshal --monitor
>>      dbus-monitor --system
> Ah, I tried the first command on an OI system running the 2020-11-27
> BE and did get some output while I inserted and removed a USB stick:
>
>      <root at ryzen># lshal --monitor
>
>      Start monitoring devicelist:
>      -------------------------------------------------
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_0 added
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0 added
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0 added
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4 added
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4 added
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 added
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 property volume.mount_point = '/media/STORE N GO'
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 property volume.is_mounted_read_only = false (new)
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 property volume.is_mounted = true
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 property volume.mount_point = ''
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 property volume.is_mounted = false
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4/p0_1 removed
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4/sd4 removed
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0/disk4 removed
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0/scsi_host0 removed
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_if0_0 removed
>      pci_0_0/pci1022_1453_1_3/pci1b21_1142_0/storage_a_0 removed
>
> This system did automount the USB stick and did pop up a window
> showing the contents of the stick.  Now we are getting somewhere.
> Something is wrong with the OS upgrade.  All that's left is to figure
> out what is missing or what is ignoring USB events.
>
>
I don't use USB sticks with OI but I noticed something probably related
on my desktop: For some time now newly plugged mice or keyboards cannot
be used in X11. Even logout and re-login doesn't help. It looks as if
USB device need to be plugged during boot in order to be usable.