Bug#573717: gvfs: owner disconnected, fails to mount usb keys

[Brice Goglin]

Package: gvfs
Version: 1.4.3-1
Severity: normal

Hello,

Removable drivers (only tried USB keys) do not mount anymore
in Gnome. Nothing happens automatically, and there's nothing
in nautilus I could click to mount the device.

I've been trying to fix this without success. I reinstalled
several packages, remove all mount configuration from the
gconf database, ...


When I plug a USB key, nothing happens and I finally see this
in .xsession-errors:

  (nautilus:9233): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: Owner :1.42 of volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor disconnected from the bus; removing drives/volumes/mounts

If I unplug/replug, nothing appears.
If I ask Nautilus to open the computer, I get:

  (nautilus:9233): Nautilus-GDU-WARNING **: unable to query info: L'emplacement indiqué n'est pas pris en charge
  (nautilus:9233): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: New owner :1.74 for volume monitor org.gtk.Private.GduVolumeMonitor connected to the bus; seeding drives/volumes/mounts
  (nautilus:9233): GVFS-RemoteVolumeMonitor-WARNING **: invoking List() failed for type GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

and it only shows the main filesystem, nothing about the new
device.

In case it matters, gnome-mount works:
  $ gnome-mount -vdb /dev/sdb1
  gnome-mount 0.8
  ** (gnome-mount:9763): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_1C10_7655
  ** (gnome-mount:9763): DEBUG: read default option 'shortname=lower' from gconf strlist key /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options
  ** (gnome-mount:9763): DEBUG: read default option 'uid=' from gconf strlist key /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options
  ** (gnome-mount:9763): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_1C10_7655 with mount_point='', fstype='', num_options=2
  ** (gnome-mount:9763): DEBUG:   option='shortname=lower'
  ** (gnome-mount:9763): DEBUG:   option='uid=1000'
  Mounted /dev/sdb1 at "/media/disk"

Things work fine on another machine running pretty much the
same setup, but I don't know where to look now...

Brice


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR at euro, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gvfs depends on:
ii  devicekit-disks               009-3      abstraction for enumerating block 
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-6   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.28.0-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgdu0                       2.28.1-3   GObject based Disk Utility Library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             2.28.2-1   GNOME keyring services library
ii  libudev0                      151-2      libudev shared library
ii  x11-utils                     7.5+2      X11 utilities

Versions of packages gvfs recommends:
ii  dbus                          1.2.20-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  policykit-1-gnome             0.96-2     GNOME authentication agent for Pol

Versions of packages gvfs suggests:
ii  gvfs-backends                 1.4.3-1    userspace virtual filesystem - bac

-- no debconf information