On 6/13/21 1:01 PM, tito via Dng wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 12:37:00 -0700
> Fred <fred@???> wrote:
>
>> On 6/11/21 7:05 AM, Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:37:13 -0700
>>> Fred <fred@???> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 6/10/21 1:48 PM, Patrick Bartek via Dng wrote:
>>>>> On Thu, 10 Jun 2021 08:49:24 -0700
>>>>> Fred <fred@???> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I have a new Beowulf AMD64 install and am having trouble mounting
>>>>>> USB storage devices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The USB keyboard and mouse work ok. lsusb shows the storage
>>>>>> device is present. The usbmount program is apparently no longer
>>>>>> available and I haven't been able to find what took its place.
>>>>>> I have another computer that had Debian Jessie installed then was
>>>>>> upgraded to Beowulf x86. It has usbmount and will automatically
>>>>>> mount USB storage devices.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do I need to install?
>>>>>
>>>>> I use udisks2 to automount external USB devices.
>>>>>
>>>>> B
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>>>> Hi,
>>>> I found udisks2 installed on the computer that automatically mounts
>>>> USB devices but there is no man page so I would not know how to use
>>>> it if installed on the other computer.
>>>
>>> Not much to using it: apt-get install udisks2 and everything gets
>>> set up. I used the defaults. Devices are mounted under /media/"your
>>> username". If you run a panel, the udisks2 gadget shows up there
>>> with additional options. Manual unmounting is necessary, but I use
>>> only a window manager (Openbox) and lxpanel for my GUI, so your
>>> mileage may vary if you use a desktop environment.
>>>
>>> Others have shown you how to access the mans. So, I won't repeat
>>> that.
>>>
>>> B
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>> Hello,
>> I still need some help with this.
>> I installed udisks2. The last line of the installation dialog showed
>> what I believe is a warning, maybe of no consequence:
>>
>> W:
>> http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libb/libblockdev/libblockdev-crypto2_2.20-7+deb10u1_amd64.deb:
>> Automatically disabled Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth due to incorrect
>> response from server/proxy. (man 5 apt.conf)
>>
>> The udisksd man page says the daemon is started by dbus-daemon or
>> systemd. However, it is not started by inserting a USB device. I
>> tried starting it manually (with USB device inserted) and received
>> this:
>>
>> root@aragog:/home/fred# /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd &
>> [1] 523
>> root@aragog:/home/fred# udisks-Message: 07:27:15.642: udisks daemon
>> version 2.8.1 starting
>>
>> ** (udisksd:523): WARNING **: 07:27:15.773: failed to load module
>> mdraid: libbd_mdraid.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such
>> file or directory
>> sh: 1: dmidecode: not found
>>
>> (udisksd:523): udisks-WARNING **: 07:27:15.776: Failed to load the
>> 'mdraid' libblockdev plugin
>> udisks-Message: 07:27:16.017: Acquired the name
>> org.freedesktop.UDisks2 on the system message bus
>>
>> If that library file was needed it should have been loaded by the
>> installer. I don't know what to do from here.
>>
>> I use openbox and xterms if that info. is needed.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Fred
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> Hi,
> try
>
> apt install libblockdev-mdraid2
>
> Ciao,
> Tito
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Hi,
Doesn't make any difference. The USB device is not mounted in /media
and the udisksd daemon is not started.

Another computer that was upgraded from Debian Jessie to Beowulf x86
mounts devices in /media under one of usb0-7. The udisksd daemon is
running.
Best regards,
Fred