KDE Device Notifier stopped showing my cell phone after upgrade to
Fedora 17/18. (I don't know exactly if it was for F17 or for F18,
since I did the upgrade to F17 and immediately after that I did the
upgrade to F18.) Now I have Fedora 18 64 bit on an Asus G53SX laptop.

I did some research and found many posts related to MTP, suggesting to
install mtpfs, jmtpfs. I followed the recipes with no success.

Strangely enough the cell phone is shown and mounts OK if I use
Gnome. Also if I browse the filesystem within Gimp (in KDE!) I can see
the cell phone sdcard. So I think that is some KDE related problem.

When I go to Device Notifier Settings -> Removable Devices, the phone
is listed, but I can do anything with it. If I hover with the mouse on
the sdcard then a popup shows
UDI:/orgfreedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

If I do $ lsusb, I get

Bus 002 Device 004: ID 04e8:689e Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd GT-S5670
[Galaxy Fit]

When I unmount the SDCARD on the phone I get the following in /var/log/messages

Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1352.998977] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 7736320
512-byte logical blocks: (3.96 GB/3.68 GiB)
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.000549] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking
for cache data failed
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.000559] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming
drive cache: write through
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.003137] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Asking
for cache data failed
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.003147] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming
drive cache: write through
Feb 6 21:34:36 kinky kernel: [ 1353.003792] sdb:

Someone on kde@lists.fedoraproject.org suggested me to install the
kio_mtp package, but still the device is not detected. I see that this
package contains a shared library and KDE services. Should I do
something in order to start these services? I looked at Service
Manager and I didn't fin any services related to MTP. Should I do
anything more than just installing the package?

Any help is welcome!!

Kind regards, Mario

With kio_mtp installed, have you tried opening mtp:/ in Dolphin or Konqueror to see if your device is listed there?

bcooksley wrote:With kio_mtp installed, have you tried opening mtp:/ in Dolphin or Konqueror to see if your device is listed there?

If I do that I found nothing in Dolphin.

However, if (I as mentioned before) go to Device Notifier Settings ->
Removable Devices the phone is listed, but I can do anything with
it. If I hover with the mouse on the sdcard then a popup shows
UDI:/orgfreedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

I think that the phone is not using MTP. I think this problem is a
misconfiguration or bug of Device Notifier, but I can't solve it.

Thanks! Mario

Please provide the output of the following command:

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solid-hardware details /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

bcooksley wrote:Please provide the output of the following command:

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solid-hardware details /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

Hi, here it is:

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[root@kinky ~]# solid-hardware details /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb
udi = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb'
  parent = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/drives/SAMSUNG_GT_S5830L_Card_S58308ac11025'  (string)
  vendor = 'SAMSUNG'  (string)
  product = 'GT-S5830L Card'  (string)
  description = '3.7 GiB Removable Media'  (string)
  Block.major = 8  (0x8)  (int)
  Block.minor = 16  (0x10)  (int)
  Block.device = '/dev/sdb'  (string)
  StorageAccess.accessible = false  (bool)
  StorageAccess.filePath = ''  (string)
  StorageAccess.ignored = false  (bool)
  StorageVolume.ignored = false  (bool)
  StorageVolume.usage = 'FileSystem'  (0x2)  (enum)
  StorageVolume.fsType = 'vfat'  (string)
  StorageVolume.label = ''  (string)
  StorageVolume.uuid = '3663-6266'  (string)
  StorageVolume.size = 3960995840  (0xec180000)  (qulonglong)
[root@kinky ~]#


Thanks! Mario

Are you able to mount the device manually?

bcooksley wrote:Are you able to mount the device manually?

I don't know how to do that!

There are two possible ways to do this - this way is through UDisks2:

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solid-hardware mount /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

bcooksley wrote:There are two possible ways to do this - this way is through UDisks2:

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solid-hardware mount /org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb

YES! That did worked, and mounts in /run/media/root/3663-6266/. Also I
tried to do `mount' and it did worked

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[root@kinky ~]# mount /dev/sdb /mnt
[root@kinky ~]# ls -l /mnt
total 800
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 32768 Aug  5  2011 AlarmClockXtreme
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 32768 Jul  5  2011 Android
...
[root@kinky ~]#


Thanks, thats a big advance for me! At least now I can mount the
device manually.

Now I see that the problem happened when I migrated to Fedora 17/18 (I
don't know exactly which of them caused the problem, because I did
both upgrades almost simultaneously). During the upgrade I saw that
now mounts are in /run/media/<user> instead of /media. May be the
problem related to that? Perhaps for some reason device notifier is
waiting to something being mounted at /media. But wait no... It can't
be that because other removable devices (PHDs, pendrives) are being
detected OK.

I suspect the move from /media to /run/media is not related here.
It is probably the failure of a rule known as a "Predicate" to match your phone.

To check this, please run:

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solid-hardware query "[ [ [ StorageVolume.ignored == false AND StorageVolume.usage == 'FileSystem' ] OR [ IS StorageAccess AND StorageDrive.driveType == 'Floppy' ] ] OR StorageAccess.ignored == false ]"

bcooksley wrote:I suspect the move from /media to /run/media is not related here.
It is probably the failure of a rule known as a "Predicate" to match your phone.

To check this, please run:

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solid-hardware query "[ [ [ StorageVolume.ignored == false AND StorageVolume.usage == 'FileSystem' ] OR [ IS StorageAccess AND StorageDrive.driveType == 'Floppy' ] ] OR StorageAccess.ignored == false ]"

Here it is,

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[root@kinky ~]# solid-hardware query "[ [ [ StorageVolume.ignored == false AND StorageVolume.usage == 'FileSystem' ] OR [ IS StorageAccess AND StorageDrive.driveType == 'Floppy' ] ] OR StorageAccess.ignored == false ]"
udi = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d1'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/dm_2d2'
udi = '/org/freedesktop/UDisks2/block_devices/sdb'
[root@kinky ~]#


Very unusual - that is the exact same predicate which the Device Notifier uses, so it should be showing "Open in File Manager" as an action.
Can you try this under a new user please?

bcooksley wrote:Very unusual - that is the exact same predicate which the Device Notifier uses, so it should be showing "Open in File Manager" as an action.
Can you try this under a new user please?

YES! The device is detected and correctly mounted for other user. Should I clean some kind of cache for KDE?

Please try removing ~/.kde4/share/apps/solid outside of KDE.
Also, try running "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental".

bcooksley wrote:Please try removing ~/.kde4/share/apps/solid outside of KDE.

I don't have a ~/.kde4 directory (but I'm runnin KDE 4, that's sure)
I do have a ~/.kde of course, but there is not ~/.kde/share/apps/solid
directory in there.

Also, try running "kbuildsycoca4 --noincremental".

I did so but it didn't fixed the problem. Thanks!