Thunar requires restart of gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service to automount

Sun Apr 7 16:18:01 CEST 2019

Hello,

I've installed latest Manjaro xfce-iso to replace gnome with Xfce
environment and everything is working fine except the problem that
Thunar is not capable of mounting any removable media.

The same media can be mounted manually (it goes from 120M usb stick to
2TB HDD - RDX cartridge) and if I boot live-media iso (on the usb
stick), Thunar does automount which means that the issue has appeared
on my installed system.

In the journalctl output I noticed the lines like:

[...]
tra 07 10:58:06 atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says
it's not supported 
tra 07 10:58:06 atmarama.ddns.net tumblerd[5613]: remote volume monitor
with dbus name org.gtk.vfs.UDisks2VolumeMonitor is not supported

Further investigation has led me to the following bug report
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1585066) and, indeed:

$ systemctl --user status gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
● gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem service -
disk device monitor 
Loaded: loaded
(/usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service; static;
vendor pre>
 Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-04-07 10:16:07 CEST; 3h 9min
ago Main PID: 1056 (gvfs-udisks2-vo)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user at 1000.service/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service
└─1056 /usr/lib/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor 

tra 07 13:08:43 atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says
it's not supported tra 07 13:08:48 atmarama.ddns.net
gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says it's not supported tra 07 13:09:16
atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says it's not
supported tra 07 13:09:16 atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]:
monitor says it's not supported tra 07 13:09:17 atmarama.ddns.net
gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says it's not supported tra 07 13:09:17
atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says it's not
supported tra 07 13:18:34 atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]:
monitor says it's not supported tra 07 13:18:34 atmarama.ddns.net
gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says it's not supported tra 07 13:18:35
atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]: monitor says it's not
supported tra 07 13:18:35 atmarama.ddns.net gvfs-udisks2-vo[1056]:
monitor says it's not supported 

$  systemctl --user restart gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor
$  systemctl --user status gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor

● gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service - Virtual filesystem service -
disk device monitor Loaded: loaded
(/usr/lib/systemd/user/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service; static;
vendor pre> Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-04-07 13:25:51
CEST; 1s ago Main PID: 17668 (gvfs-udisks2-vo)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user at 1000.service/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service
└─17668 /usr/lib/gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor 

tra 07 13:25:51 atmarama.ddns.net systemd[964]:
gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service: Main proces> tra 07 13:25:51
atmarama.ddns.net systemd[964]: gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor.service:
Succeeded. tra 07 13:25:51 atmarama.ddns.net systemd[964]: Stopped
Virtual filesystem service - disk device> tra 07 13:25:51
atmarama.ddns.net systemd[964]: Starting Virtual filesystem service -
disk devic> tra 07 13:25:51 atmarama.ddns.net systemd[964]: Started
Virtual filesystem service - disk device>

and after that the inserted media shows up in Thunar's Devices section
where I can (un)mount them.

Now I wonder if someone can shed some more light on this issue, iow.
why gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor requires restart and how to fix the
issue permanently?

My system is:

$  inxi -Fxz
System:    Host: atmarama.ddns.net Kernel: 4.19.34-1-MANJARO x86_64
bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 8.2.1 Desktop: Xfce 4.13.3git-UNKNOWN Distro:
Manjaro Linux Machine:   Type: Desktop System: Gigabyte product:
P55-UD4 v: N/A serial: <filter> Mobo: Gigabyte model: P55-UD4 v: x.x
serial: <filter> BIOS: Award v: F9 date: 06/25/2010 
Battery:   Device-1: hidpp_battery_0 model: Logitech M585/M590
Multi-Device Mouse charge: 55% (should be ignored) status: Discharging 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7 860 bits: 64 type:
MT MCP arch: Nehalem rev: 5 L2 cache: 8192 KiB 
           flags: lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 44786 Speed: 1220 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1220
2: 1229 3: 1577 4: 1273 5: 1429 6: 1224 7: 2322 8: 1308 
Graphics:  Device-1: AMD RV730 XT [Radeon HD 4670] vendor: Gigabyte
driver: radeon v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.0 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: ati,radeon
unloaded: modesetting resolution: 2560x1440~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: AMD RV730 (DRM 2.50.0 / 4.19.34-1-MANJARO
LLVM 8.0.0) v: 3.3 Mesa 19.0.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 
           Device-2: AMD RV710/730 HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 4000 series]
vendor: Gigabyte driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 01:00.1 
           Device-3: Logitech QuickCam Vision Pro type: USB driver:
snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo bus ID: 4-5:2 
           Device-4: Logitech Premium Stereo USB Headset 350 type: USB 
           driver: hid-generic,snd-usb-audio,usbhid bus ID: 5-2:3 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k4.19.34-1-MANJARO 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet vendor: Gigabyte driver: r8168 v: 8.045.08-NAPI port: de00 bus
ID: 06:00.0 IF: enp6s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac:
<filter> Drives:    Local Storage: total: 2.73 TiB used: 903.70 GiB
(32.3%) ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Seagate model: ST31000525SV size: 931.51
GiB ID-2: /dev/sdb vendor: Seagate model: ST2000DX001-1NS164 size: 1.82
TiB RAID:      Device-1: md126 type: mdraid status: active Components:
online: sdb3~c2 sda3~c0 Info: raid: mirror blocks: 945172160 report:
2/2 UU chunk size: N/A Device-2: md127 type: mdraid status: active
Components: online: sdb2~c2 sda2~c0 Info: raid: mirror blocks: 31440896
report: 2/2 UU chunk size: N/A Partition: ID-1: / size: 29.97 GiB used:
11.50 GiB (38.4%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/md127 ID-2: /home size: 900.95 GiB
used: 892.20 GiB (99.0%) fs: xfs dev: /dev/md126 ID-3: swap-1 size:
8.00 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb4 Sensors:   System
Temperatures: cpu: 39.0 C mobo: N/A gpu: radeon temp: 49 C Fan Speeds
(RPM): N/A Info:      Processes: 275 Uptime: 3h 28m Memory: 15.66 GiB
used: 2.83 GiB (18.1%) Init: systemd Compilers: gcc: 8.2.1 Shell: fish
v: 3.0.2 inxi: 3.0.32 

Any hint?

Sincerely,
Gour

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