bug#62985: [GNOME] MTP mounts in Nautilus doesn't work out of the box

bug#62985: [GNOME] MTP mounts in Nautilus doesn't work out of the box

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Connecting an Android phone via USB to a Guix System that has GNOME
installed, and selecting the transfer mode to be USB/media, I'd expect
it to appear in Nautilus, the same it does in other mainstream
distributions.  Instead, nothing happens.

In Fedora, for example, the device appears in the left panel of
Nautilus, and a 'gvfsd-mtp' process starts running.  In Guix System,
there's no 'gvfsd-mtp' process running, although a
'gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor' process is running.

To be investigated.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

bug#62985: [GNOME] MTP mounts in Nautilus doesn't work out of the box

[Csepp]

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Connecting an Android phone via USB to a Guix System that has GNOME
> installed, and selecting the transfer mode to be USB/media, I'd expect
> it to appear in Nautilus, the same it does in other mainstream
> distributions.  Instead, nothing happens.
>
> In Fedora, for example, the device appears in the left panel of
> Nautilus, and a 'gvfsd-mtp' process starts running.  In Guix System,
> there's no 'gvfsd-mtp' process running, although a
> 'gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor' process is running.
>
> To be investigated.

I've also experienced this with plain USB block devices like some of my
microSD adapters.  No idea what causes it.  Sometimes it shows up in
Nautilus for a split second and then disappears.
Weirdly enough, running fdisk -l on the block device makes it show up in
Nautilus.

But it should be noted that our Nautilus version is behind by two versions.

bug#62985: [GNOME] MTP mounts in Nautilus doesn't work out of the box

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Connecting an Android phone via USB to a Guix System that has GNOME
>> installed, and selecting the transfer mode to be USB/media, I'd expect
>> it to appear in Nautilus, the same it does in other mainstream
>> distributions.  Instead, nothing happens.
>>
>> In Fedora, for example, the device appears in the left panel of
>> Nautilus, and a 'gvfsd-mtp' process starts running.  In Guix System,
>> there's no 'gvfsd-mtp' process running, although a
>> 'gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor' process is running.
>>
>> To be investigated.
>
> I've also experienced this with plain USB block devices like some of my
> microSD adapters.  No idea what causes it.  Sometimes it shows up in
> Nautilus for a split second and then disappears.
> Weirdly enough, running fdisk -l on the block device makes it show up in
> Nautilus.
>
> But it should be noted that our Nautilus version is behind by two versions.

Did you have a chance to update your system following the core-updates
merge yet?  At least on a fresh install it was working correctly now on
one machine, where it wasn't before.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim

bug#62985: [GNOME] MTP mounts in Nautilus doesn't work out of the box

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Csepp <raingloom@riseup.net> writes:
>
>> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Connecting an Android phone via USB to a Guix System that has GNOME
>>> installed, and selecting the transfer mode to be USB/media, I'd expect
>>> it to appear in Nautilus, the same it does in other mainstream
>>> distributions.  Instead, nothing happens.
>>>
>>> In Fedora, for example, the device appears in the left panel of
>>> Nautilus, and a 'gvfsd-mtp' process starts running.  In Guix System,
>>> there's no 'gvfsd-mtp' process running, although a
>>> 'gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor' process is running.
>>>
>>> To be investigated.
>>
>> I've also experienced this with plain USB block devices like some of my
>> microSD adapters.  No idea what causes it.  Sometimes it shows up in
>> Nautilus for a split second and then disappears.
>> Weirdly enough, running fdisk -l on the block device makes it show up in
>> Nautilus.
>>
>> But it should be noted that our Nautilus version is behind by two versions.
>
> Did you have a chance to update your system following the core-updates
> merge yet?  At least on a fresh install it was working correctly now on
> one machine, where it wasn't before.

I tried it again on my own machine, but with a different device (old HTC
U Play phone), and it didn't work.  I wonder what suddenly caused it to
work on a different machine.

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim