[LAU] udev broken?

[Will Godfrey]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2018 11:53:55 +0200
Bengt Gördén <bengan at bag.org> wrote:

>Den 2018-04-11 kl. 20:14, skrev Will Godfrey:
>> I did an upgrade (debian testing) a couple of weeks ago, and found xfce could
>> no longer automout USB sticks and drives (pmount still works).
>> On Monday, I decided to do some work on an Arduino, and it seems that also can
>> no longer recognise boards plugged in via usb.
>>
>> Also just today another guy at work tells me he now has the same problem.
>>
>> The weird thing is I can't seem to find any recent references on-line to such
>> issues.
>>
>> Anyone got any suggestions?
>
>Some month ago I had some problems with automount (USBmount) of usb when
>I was testing debian stretch as a router in our lab. After some googling
>it was solved with this. It shouldn't have affected arduinos as far as I
>can understand but I'm not sure.
>
>https://github.com/rbrito/usbmount/issues/2#issuecomment-330739503
>
>Cheers,


That all fits now unfortunately.

I should have guessed that systemD was involved - especially with gnome
libraries getting more and more interdependent. Is there nothing that
horror hasn't got its tentacles into?

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