On 6/13/21 4:24 PM, g4sra via Dng wrote:
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>>>> The udisksd man page says the daemon is started by dbus-daemon or
>>>> systemd. However, it is not started by inserting a USB device.
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>>>> tried starting it manually (with USB device inserted) and received
>>>> this:
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>>>> root@aragog:/home/fred# /usr/lib/udisks2/udisksd &
>>>> [1] 5 3
>>>> root@aragog:/home/fred# udisks-Message: 07:27:15.642: udisks daemon
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>>>> version 2.8.1 starting
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>>>> ** (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
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> You read it in the man page, you do not start udisksd that way.
> what does the following command display when run with root privileges...
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> udisksctl dump
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Hi,
At the risk of doing something I was not supposed to do, I left out the
large amount of data concerning the hard drive and DVD drive, about 17K.

/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/Manager:
   org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Manager:
     SupportedFilesystems:       ext2
                                 ext3
                                 ext4
                                 vfat
                                 ntfs
                                 exfat
                                 xfs
                                 reiserfs
                                 nilfs2
                                 btrfs
                                 minix
                                 udf
                                 f2fs
                                 swap
     Version:                    2.8.1

-----snip     hard drive and DVD drive stuff ------

/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/SanDisk_Cruzer_Glide_04009817102220224840:
   org.freedesktop.UDisks2.Drive:
     CanPowerOff:                true
     Configuration:              {}
     ConnectionBus:              usb
     Ejectable:                  true
     Id:                         SanDisk-Cruzer-Glide-04009817102220224840
     Media:                      thumb
     MediaAvailable:             true
     MediaChangeDetected:        true
     MediaCompatibility:         thumb
     MediaRemovable:             false
     Model:                      Cruzer Glide
     Optical:                    false
     OpticalBlank:               false
     OpticalNumAudioTracks:      0
     OpticalNumDataTracks:       0
     OpticalNumSessions:         0
     OpticalNumTracks:           0
     Removable:                  true
     Revision:                   1.00
     RotationRate:               -1
     Seat:                       seat0
     Serial:                     04009817102220224840
     SiblingId: 
/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb1/1-2/1-2:1.0
     Size:                       30765219840
     SortKey:                    01hotplug/1623633671017912
     TimeDetected:               1623633671017912
     TimeMediaDetected:          1623633671017912
     Vendor:                     SanDisk
     WWN:

I don't understand what you mean about reading in the man page and
starting that way. It is supposed to be started by dbus-daemon.
Best regards,
Fred