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I'm a total noobie at mtpfs/FUSE. My "excellent adventure" started |
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yesterday when I got a clearout 7" tablet, and took a sample photo, and |
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tried mounting the tablet... no /dev/sdb to be found anywhere. I went |
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to "Mr. Google" for help, and found out that MTP is the "new and |
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improved" way of doing things. So I installed mtpfs. It works great |
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for root, but a regular user can't mount the tablet. The mtpfs command |
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immediately returns to the command prompt, with no error message or any |
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other info. The tablet is not mounted... |
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[d531][waltdnes][~] mtpfs ~/tablet |
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[d531][waltdnes][~] |
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Before anyone asks... |
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1) Yes, I have enabled FUSE in the kernel. At first I hadn't, but I got |
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a big red warning when I tried compiling mtpfs. I tweaked and rebuilt |
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the kernel, and rebooted, then built mtpfs. |
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2) Yes, I am a member of plugdev... |
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[d531][root][~] grep plugdev /etc/group |
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plugdev:x:247:waltdnes,user2 |
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3) This PC uses mdev rather than udev. Could that be the problem? |
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I've figured out a kludge to get around it. This involves issuing a |
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few commands as root. I could add them into a file in /etc/sudoers.d/ |
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if there's no other way around this... |
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[d531][root][~] mtpfs -o allow_other /home/waltdnes/tablet |
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Device 0 (VID=0bb4 and PID=2008) is UNKNOWN. |
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Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team |
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Android device detected, assigning default bug flags |
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[d531][root][~] chown -R waltdnes:users /home/waltdnes/tablet |
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The "chown" command allows me to get at all the data, and copy photos |
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off the tablet to my PC, and delete them off the tablet. And also move |
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any other data files to/from the tablet. When I was finished, I tried... |
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[d531][waltdnes][~] fusermount -u tablet |
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fusermount: entry for /home/waltdnes/tablet not found in /etc/mtab |
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I had to unmount as root... |
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[d531][root][~] fusermount -u /home/waltdnes/tablet |
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I experienced similar problems with simple-mtpfs, so that's not a |
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solution either. Any ideas? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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