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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 08:49:05
Message-Id: 2014765.clzZr6qBJg@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE 5 MTP failure by Walter Dnes
1 On Sunday 18 Jun 2017 20:48:53 Walter Dnes wrote:
2 > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 01:19:58AM +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote
3 >
4 > > On Sunday 18 Jun 2017 14:11:02 Walter Dnes wrote:
5 > > > An extra bit of debugging...
6 > > >
7 > > > * switch to message log console (tty12) with {CTRL}{ALT}{F12}
8 > > >
9 > > > * attach device
10 > > >
11 > > > * note the output
12 > >
13 > > USB device detected, using xhci-hcd.
14 >
15 > YIKES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
16 >
17 > * Connect your device again
18 >
19 > * As root, execute "fdisk -l"
20 >
21 > * If you see an unexpected partion, e.g. /dev/sdb1, as root
22 > "mount -t auto /dev/sdb1 $HOME/nexus"
23
24 Just the SSD in this box and its partitions.
25
26 > * "cd $HOME/nexus" and "ls -al". Do you see anything?
27
28 No, because still nothing's mounted there. I tried adding a couple more
29 options to the mount command, with no discernible effect: -o nonempty -o
30 direct_io.
31
32 > If that works, you've mounted it just like a USB key. Make sure that
33 > you "cd" away from the device, and "umount $HOME/nexus".
34 >
35 > Check you device's mounting options. I've seen devices that have
36 > options to mount as...
37 > - regular USB devices
38 > - MTP devices
39 > - PTP (direct photo-to-printer) devices
40 >
41 > Select the mount option most convenient for you.
42
43 Maybe I have something lacking in my kernel config.
44
45 --
46 Regards
47 Peter