Re: File Managers shows many devices that are not drives, in i3 but not in GNOME

["Stefan Stefanović" <stefanx2ovic@gmail.com>]

Hello,
I use i3 window manager myself and have solved this problem by 
installing gvfs package in my guix profile.

I started the nautilus file manager from the terminal emulator and I got 
the following warnings:
   invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
     org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor:: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
     The name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor was not provided by any 
.service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
   invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
     org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor:: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
     The name org.gtk.vfs.MTPVolumeMonitor was not provided by any 
.service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)
   invoking IsSupported() failed for remote volume monitor with dbus name
     org.gtk.vfs.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor:: 
GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:
     The name org.gtk.vfs.GPhoto2VolumeMonitor was not provided by any 
.service files (g-dbus-error-quark, 2)

The gvfs package provides the above mentioned dbus services.

To test this I installed it to my user profile by running:
guix package -i gvfs

I had to check the presence of the above mentioned dbus service files by 
running:
ls -l $GUIX_PROFILE/share/dbus-1/services/

And since I have fish as my default shell I had to run:
exec sh -c "source $GUIX_PROFILE/etc/profile; exec fish"
to properly set new environment variables.
(You can change the above command by replacing 'fish' with your shell 
command.)

At this point I started nautilus from the terminal emulator and the 
problem was solved.

Test this solution and of course you can add this package in your system 
profile.

This reply is a bit late but it may be useful to others who have similar 
problems.

-Stefan

On 11/20/2017 03:50 PM, brendan.tildesley@openmailbox.org wrote:
> In i3-wm my pcmanfm and nautilus, and probably other file systems display all these devices like:
>
> pts
> shm
> store
> systemd
> user
> cgroup
> blkio
> ...
>
> which browse to /dev/pts, /dev/sdm, /gnu/store, ... when clicked on.
>
> These things shouldn't appear at all, additionally, my usb drives and extra hard drive are not automounted or recognised in pcmanfm/nautilus. I don't know how to begin debugging this so I'm wondering if anyone else understands what's going on.
>
> My OS config is here: https://paste.debian.net/996688/
> It occurs when my config is launched in a VM too so it isn't caused by my config files in HOME.