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.
> >>>
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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.
> >
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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:

I did some checking -- It's been a while since I installed Beowulf and
udisks2 -- and I discovered that you need to use a "front end" for
udisks2 for it to truly automount. I used udiskie
(https://pypi.org/project/udiskie/) which must be started manually.
Installing it doesn't automatically set it up to start. I just added a
stanza to Openbox's autostart script. Since I use lxpanel in addition
to Openbox, I added the "--smart-tray" option, so udiskie will appear in
the panel when it's in use.

> 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:

It does. You shouldn't have to manually start it. To see if udisks2 is
running and working, inset a usb thumb drive, and in a terminal enter
"udisksctl status". The thumb drive should show in the list of other
mounted devices.

> 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.

Do you have a RAID set up? If not, disregard the warnings.

> I use openbox and xterms if that info. is needed.

Me, too, with a single lxpanel with menus. I do not have any desktop
environments, in whole or part, installed. Neither a display manager. I
boot to and login in a terminal and, then, run startx.

B