Subject: Re: bug#62985: [GNOME] MTP mounts in Nautilus doesn't work out of the box

From: Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 08:26:27 -0400

Hi,

Csepp <[email-masked]> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Connecting an Android phone via USB to a Guix System that has GNOME
>> installed, and selecting the transfer mode to be USB/media, I'd expect
>> it to appear in Nautilus, the same it does in other mainstream
>> distributions.  Instead, nothing happens.
>>
>> In Fedora, for example, the device appears in the left panel of
>> Nautilus, and a 'gvfsd-mtp' process starts running.  In Guix System,
>> there's no 'gvfsd-mtp' process running, although a
>> 'gvfs-mtp-volume-monitor' process is running.
>>
>> To be investigated.
>
> I've also experienced this with plain USB block devices like some of my
> microSD adapters.  No idea what causes it.  Sometimes it shows up in
> Nautilus for a split second and then disappears.
> Weirdly enough, running fdisk -l on the block device makes it show up in
> Nautilus.
>
> But it should be noted that our Nautilus version is behind by two versions.

Did you have a chance to update your system following the core-updates
merge yet?  At least on a fresh install it was working correctly now on
one machine, where it wasn't before.

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Thanks,
Maxim