GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 755654
mmc/sd drive does not appear in Nautilus
Last modified: 2015-11-13 23:13:50 UTC
After inserting an SD card in the MMC/SD card reader, a Gnome Files window pops up showing the contents of the SD card. The problem is the drive is not listed anywhere within the Files window, which makes it difficult to find again after you've navigated away from it. The drive does not appear on the left hand side or under 'Other Locations'. For normal USB flash drives, this is not a problem as the drive appears on the left hand side. MMC/SD card drives should appear on the left hand side of the Files window also. Additional info: The following is output from dmesg to clarify what kind of device I mean when I say 'MMC/SD card reader': [ 2.224086] mmc0: SDHCI controller on PCI [0000:04:00.0] using DMA [ 369.608008] mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card [ 369.732100] mmc0: new high speed SDHC card at address aaaa [ 369.752218] mmcblk0: mmc0:aaaa SU16G 14.8 GiB [ 369.753726] mmcblk0: p1 And output from the 'mount' command: /dev/mmcblk0p1 on /run/media/xxxx/NIKON D51001 type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
I'm using Nautilus / Files 3.18.0 with Fedora 23
Can you attach the output of "gvfs-mount -li" and "udiskctl dump"? Thanks
Created attachment 312201 [details] Output of "gvfs-mount -li"
Created attachment 312202 [details] Output of "udiskctl dump"
Created attachment 312240 [details] [review] gtkplacessidebar: Show drives with removable media Some drives have removable media that is not ejectable (e.g. a laptop's SD card reader). Show volumes on these drives in the sidebar.
Created attachment 312978 [details] USB and MMC attached and mounted I want to confirm this bug. On my Laptop external devices are not listed in the "other place" view. But when I, having a usb stick and a mcc attached (and gvfs mounted), remove the usb stick the mmc partitions are showing up. Every partition even is shown twice. On the Top of the Image you can see that both devices are attatched and gvfs-mounted. On the bottom you see nautilus after unplugging the usb device. I am currently running Gnome 3.18.0-1 on Arch Linux [testing]
Created attachment 312979 [details] Top: USB and MMC attached; Bottom: USB removed.
I can confirm this behaviour. Mounted memory cards doesn't show up on the sidebar of Nautilus, if the card reader is connected through PCI-Express. Mounted USB flash drives are shown on the sidebar, also memory cards which are mounted by card readers which are connected through USB itself are visible. The sidebar itself seems to be redrawn (it flickers), but nothing is changed after insertion of the card. The notification also don't work in this case. Thanks for the patch above. Maybe I can try the patch posted above, I don't know if I have the time. --------------------------------------------------------- Basically memory cards are not usable for novice users on all ThinkPads and other laptops, which use PCI-Express to connect the card reader. At least my X220 and T420 are affected. If someone stumbles on this bug which is NOT familar with UNIX/Linux: 1. The memory card is mounted, don't remove it! 2. mount point is: /run/media/$USER/$FILESYSTEM_LABEL 3. you can navigate to this directory with the shell or Nautilus Removing: 1. $ sync # just for safety 2. $ umount /run/media/$USER/$FILESYSTEM_LABEL 3. you can now remove the card safely from your card reader Please don't remove the card without umounting it, you could damage your files/filesystem on the card.
Review of attachment 312240 [details] [review]: Looks good
I've applied that patch under Archlinux and it works :) I didn't noticed any side-effects.
*** Bug 755646 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 756542 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Pushed to master as f2b848a5319987a3b45282058cd091b3e3152652 and gtk-3-18 as 40f5a35a69b9d1ffd0c29428d8bf6218d9a822ad. Thanks for the review.
*** Bug 758084 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***