Can't use removable storage media with Salix 14.0

[laprjns]

I still can't access removable storage media.

Are udisks and udisks2 installed ?

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root[rich]# slapt-get --se udisks
udisks-1.0.4-i486-1 [inst=yes]: udisks (storage device daemon)
udisks2-1.98.0-i486-1 [inst=yes]: udisks2 (storage device daemon v2)

[zAchAry]

I wonder if this is in any way related to the problems I experienced with Gmountman when running hand-rolled tiling WMs: unless I call Gmountman through dbus-launch, it only sees fd0 (the non-existent floppy drive).

I used to have this issue, too.
http://salixos.org/forum/viewtopic.php? ... nch#p22404

Edit: Solved (see below).

I still can't access removable storage media.

Are udisks and udisks2 installed ?

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root[rich]# slapt-get --se udisks
udisks-1.0.4-i486-1 [inst=yes]: udisks (storage device daemon)
udisks2-1.98.0-i486-1 [inst=yes]: udisks2 (storage device daemon v2)

No.

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$ slapt-get --se udisks
udisks-1.0.4-i486-1 [inst=no]: udisks (storage device daemon)
udisks2-1.98.0-i486-1 [inst=yes]: udisks2 (storage device daemon v2)

Should I reboot after installing udisks? (Edit: Yes)

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# slapt-get -i udisks
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libatasmart udisks 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 208.0kB of archives.
After unpacking 990.0kB of additional disk space will be used.
1/2 Get http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-14.0/ libatasmart 0.19-i486-1 [36.0kB]...Done
2/2 Get http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/slackware-14.0/ udisks 1.0.4-i486-1 [172.0kB]...Done

Preparing to install libatasmart-0.19-i486-1
Installing package libatasmart-0.19-i486-1...
| libatasmart (ATA S.M.A.R.T. library)
| 
| libatasmart is a lean, small and clean implementation of an ATA
| S.M.A.R.T. ((Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology)
| reading and parsing library.  S.M.A.R.T. is a system used by hard
| drives to monitor factors that may impact drive reliability in the
| hope of predicting a drive failure before it occurs.
| 
| Homepage: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/being-smart.html
| 
| 
| 
| 
Preparing to install udisks-1.0.4-i486-1
Installing package udisks-1.0.4-i486-1...
| udisks (storage device daemon)
| 
| The udisks project provides a storage daemon that implements D-Bus
| interfaces that can be used to query and manipulate storage devices.
| 
| It also includes a command-line tool, udisks(1), that can be used to
| query and control the daemon.
| 
| Homepage:  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/udisks
| 
| 
| 
| 
WARNING: Directory already exists *behind the symlink* on filesystem. This may break upgrade/remove if you change that symlink in the future. (usr/share/pkgconfig)
Done

Edit: Does anybody have a suggestion to why this was not installed?

[laprjns]

Edit: Does anybody have a suggestion to why this was not installed?

Did you upgrade to 14.0 using these instructions, http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/H ... 37_to_14.0? udisks and udisks2 where not part of 13.37 ( hal was used instead) so I think that installing them needs to be added to the upgrade instructions.

[zAchAry]

I have copied the b43/b43legacy firmware section from How to upgrade Salix 13.1 to 13.37 ([s]please correct it if needed - I have downloaded all the SlackBuild scripts and source files locally and I have installed it manually after reboot[/s]) -- Edit: I have added instructions with --fetch argument which I think would do the desired task fine.

Please add the udisks and udisks2 packages in their appropriate places.

Edit: Is udisks (or udisks2) an alternative to hal? If so then I think it would be appropriate to write:

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hal (reinstall udisks afterwards)

Or:

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hal (reinstall udisks2 afterwards)

Similar to:

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raptor (reinstall raptor2 afterwards)

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