Thunar without XFCE, can't eject iPod and other travails.. [solved]

Question

I'm trying to get my Thunar set up to where it automatically shows my ipod when plugged in, but I can right click the icon to unmount it as well.
I used the udev wiki to add a set of rules for automounting usb devices, so my ipod now automatically loads, but there are two problems.
1. There are two icons for the ipod in the Thunar shortcuts pane. One says Apple iPod and shows an error on left click of 'Failed to mount "Apple iPod Music Player" - Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/ volume_part1_size_41094144" is not a volume or drive.'
2. The second icon shows the name of my ipod and I can click it to view the drive, great, but on right clicking and choosing Unmount Volume, it shows an error of 'Failed to unmount "iPod" - The volume "iPod" was probably mounted manually on the command line.'
And a seperate, but perhaps related problem is when I press the eject button on my CDROM drive, an error shows as 'Failed to eject "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/storage_mode_DVD_RW_ND_3540A". Right clicking the icon in Thunar and choosing eject does work for this, though I'd prefer to be able to use the eject button.
Does anyone have any ideas on a way to fix these problems?
Thanks!
Last edited by oksana (2007-08-21 22:39:03)

Answer 1

Nonono...there's a bug with thunar-volman and ipods that causes them to load twice and whinge about it.  Note that loading two devices is, as far as I know, the intended outcome, since ipods have a mysterious second partition for storing the hopes and dreams of steve jobs himself.  I don't really know what it's for, but you can use an hal policy file (fdi file) to prevent hal from loading it.
The bug has to do with thunar-volman trying to load it and failing.  You can view the bug here:
http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2789
Actually, that's a command.  You'll need the first two diffs for the fix: thunar-volman-mount-only-mountable.diff and thunar-vfs-add-is-mountable.diff
First, we'll fix thunar with the following PKGBUILD:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.8 2007/06/01 22:28:43 tobias Exp $
# Contributor: Andrew Simmons <[email protected]>
pkgname=thunar
pkgver=0.8.0
pkgrel=5
pkgdesc="new modern file manager for Xfce"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
license=('GPL' 'LGPL')
url="http://thunar.xfce.org"
groups=('xfce4')
depends=('exo>=0.3.2' 'shared-mime-info' 'pcre' \
'desktop-file-utils' 'libexif' 'hal' 'fam' \
'startup-notification')
makedepends=('intltool' 'pkgconfig' 'gtk-doc')
patchname=thunar-vfs-add-is-mountable
options=('!LIBTOOL')
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://www.xfce.org/archive/xfce-4.4.1/src/Thunar-${pkgver}.tar.bz2
thunar-vfs-add-is-mountable.diff )
md5sums=('9f7b0945d6a235391049f6818fb4d188' 'e16532876e24ec10549b274baf262f73' )
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/Thunar-${pkgver}
cp $startdir/$patchname.diff $startdir/src/Thunar-${pkgver}
patch -Np0 -i ${startdir}/src/Thunar-${pkgver}/${patchname}.diff || return 1
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 \
--localstatedir=/var --disable-static \
--disable-gnome-thumbnailers --enable-exif --enable-pcre
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
sed -i 's:x-directory/gnome-default-handler;::' ${startdir}/pkg/usr/share/applications/Thunar-folder-handler.desktop
Stick thunar-vfs-add-is-mountable.diff in the same directory, and add the install file (call it thunar.install):
post_install() {
update-desktop-database -q
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
post_upgrade() {
post_install $1
post_remove() {
update-desktop-database -q
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
op=$1
shift
$op $*
and makepkg -i to install it.  Now let's tackle thunar-volman.
First the PKGBUILD:
# $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.6 2007/04/16 18:41:24 tobias Exp $
# Contributor: Tobias Kieslich <tobias (at) archlinux.org>
pkgname=thunar-volman
pkgver=0.1.2
pkgrel=4
pkgdesc="automatic management for removeable devices in thunar"
arch=(i686 x86_64)
url="http://xfce-goodies.berlios.de/"
license="GPL"
groups=('xfce4-goodies')
depends=('thunar>=0.8')
makedepends=('intltool' 'pkgconfig')
options=('NOLIBTOOL')
patchname=thunar-volman-mount-only-mountable
install=${pkgname}.install
source=(http://download.berlios.de/xfce-goodies/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2 thunar-volman-mount-only-mountable.diff)
md5sums=('910de35c398f70b66b38803bdfdd26f1' 'b7ee9150294f772ed08129fd08328b9d')
build() {
cd ${startdir}/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
cp $startdir/$patchname.diff $startdir/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}
patch -Np0 -i $startdir/src/${pkgname}-${pkgver}/$patchname.diff
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --libexecdir=/usr/lib/xfce4 \
--localstatedir=/var --disable-static
make || return 1
make DESTDIR=${startdir}/pkg install
Then add the thunar-volman-mount-only-mountable.diff file, and the install file (call it thunar-volman.install):
post_install() {
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
post_upgrade() {
post_install $1
post_remove() {
gtk-update-icon-cache -q -t -f usr/share/icons/hicolor
op=$1
shift
$op $*
and makepkg -i again.
They also provide an fdi in the bug report to prevent the extra piece from mounting, but I haven't gotten it to work.  At least the bugs are gone.
BTW I found these trolling through the ubuntu gutsy launchpad.