[SOLVED] Thunar stopped recognizing external devices

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 18:14:30

Hello, it happened suddenly, I remember I purged lightdm and lightdm -locker, but I remember last time before that it was working fine, is there a connection between that and the external devices to be shown in Thunar? 8.( I mean is there any startup items to be run with lightdm...

pvsage · 2016-05-27 18:30:25

^ Might be related to this thread.

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 18:33:31

pvsage wrote:

^ Might be related to this thread.

Currently, I don't use gresec kernel, till I figure out how to work with it

xaos52 · 2016-05-27 18:35:50

Did anything else get removed when you purged lightdm? Or perhaps later on when you ran autoremove?
You can check in /var/log/apt/history.log or one of the older history.log.gz files.

Are you using another DM now or no DM at all?

damo · 2016-05-27 18:38:55

What are thunar's settings ref. Volume Management in Preferences?

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 19:04:41

okay my system lost its connection with gvfs and not loading it any more, well I'm going to use mount for now and sort out the gvfs issues later ..

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 19:16:25

damo wrote:

What are thunar's settings ref. Volume Management in Preferences?

you its those messages show like
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type.
thunar-volman: Unknown block device type.
thunar-volman: Unknown block device type.

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-27 19:44:11

Try this:

dbus-launch thunar

Does it work now?

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 20:06:31

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

Try this:
dbus-launch thunar
Does it work now?

Exactly it worked just with that method, but not with thunar alone 8)

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-27 20:08:47

How are you starting your X session?

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 20:13:40

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

How are you starting your X session?

since I purged lightdm when I need the X i use startx I put exec openbox-session there,, also I think there is no problem since the autostart file going to load the rest for me..

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-27 20:17:09

bonbonboi wrote:

I put exec openbox-session there

Try this:

mv ~/.xinitrc ~/xinitrc.bak # or mv ~/.xsession ~/xsession.bak if you use that file

Does `startx` launch your desktop with a working dbus session now?

If not, run:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager

and make sure that "openbox-session" is set.

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 20:26:29

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

bonbonboi wrote:
I put exec openbox-session there
Try this:
mv ~/.xinitrc ~/xinitrc.bak # or mv ~/.xsession ~/xsession.bak if you use that file
Does `startx` launch your desktop with a working dbus session now?
If not, run:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager
and make sure that "openbox-session" is set.

Aaah tell me that in the beginning that bunsenlabs uses a global xinitrc file, since I blindly after purging lightdm I thought to help myself by creating my own .xinitrc file as the old-school methods to avoid wide/global configuration if not strictly needed O:) ]:D

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-27 20:31:36

bonbonboi wrote:

tell me that in the beginning that bunsenlabs uses a global xinitrc file

BunsenLabs does not use a global xinitrc file, the desktop is decided by the Debian alternatives system and launched with the appropriate permissions automatically.

If ~/.xinitrc is present it will override the automation and the file should thus be ended with:

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session

Is your problem [SOLVED]?

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 20:35:26

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

bonbonboi wrote:
tell me that in the beginning that bunsenlabs uses a global xinitrc file
BunsenLabs does not use a global xinitrc file, the desktop is decided by the Debian alternatives system and launched with the appropriate permissions automatically.
If ~/.xinitrc is present it will override the automation and the file should thus be ended with:
exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session
Is your problem [SOLVED]?

Where could I find

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session openbox-session

?

Head_on_a_Stick · 2016-05-27 20:39:06

You don't need it at all, just (re)move any ~/.xinitrc and use `startx` without it.

If you want to use ~/.xinitrc then add that line at the bottom of the file.

bonbonboi · 2016-05-27 20:41:55

Head_on_a_Stick wrote:

You don't need it at all, just (re)move any ~/.xinitrc and use `startx` without it.
If you want to use ~/.xinitrc then add that line at the bottom of the file.

Just for my information I'm asking, is it that line in /etc/X11/Xsession.options > use-session-dbus ?

johnraff · 2016-05-28 03:02:44

@bonbonboi the answer is in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch

If you have the time, here is a long boring exploration of the Debian startx process, written in 2012 but still mostly valid I think.

bonbonboi · 2016-05-28 11:48:58

johnraff wrote:

@bonbonboi the answer is in /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch
If you have the time, here is a long boring exploration of the Debian startx process, written in 2012 but still mostly valid I think.

Yea I see that /etc/X11/Xsession.options and /etc/X11/Xsession.d/75dbus_dbus-launch both responsible for launching dbus with X
Tthanks for the help regarding to this issue and consider it solved O:)

hhh · 2016-05-28 23:17:52

Marking this [SOLVED].

#1 2016-05-27 18:14:30

[SOLVED] Thunar stopped recognizing external devices

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