[SOLVED]Proc, sys and pts being listed as drives

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battleshooter · #1 Post by **battleshooter** » Tue 21 Feb 2017, 07:23

Heya guys, long time no see, I hope you've all been well.

Wondering if anyone can help me with a XFCE issue.

Lately I've been noticing a lot of apps are moving to 64 bit only so I thought I'd have a whirl at a 64 bit system. Started using Slacko 64 bit 6.9.6.4 and compiled XFCE4 but I seem to have a problem. For some reason proc, sys and pts are being treated as drives. I don't even have a floppy drive so I'm sure that's a related bug but I can let it slide since it sort of is a drive.

If I could hide them and still have the regular drives show I suppose that could be a solution enough, any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Battleshooter

Geoffrey · #2 Post by **Geoffrey** » Tue 21 Feb 2017, 10:25

Nice to see your back with some ideas, I will be following this

battleshooter · #3 Post by **battleshooter** » Tue 21 Feb 2017, 11:04

Geoffrey wrote:Nice to see your back with some ideas, I will be following this

Hah, thank you Geoff

It's drawing heavily from Carolina as I still think it's the best

Semme · #4 Post by **Semme** » Thu 23 Feb 2017, 01:07

BS, so you know there's no issue with your fstab, Precise 571's copy is exactly the same.

Were listed devices OK prior to XFCE?

Do you @ all suspect a conflict with gvfs as used by Thunar's volume manager?

If not installed, perhaps you need to get that onboard.

battleshooter · #5 Post by **battleshooter** » Thu 23 Feb 2017, 04:12

Semme wrote:Were listed devices OK prior to XFCE?

Do you @ all suspect a conflict with mount, fuse or gvfs as used by Thunar's volume manager?

Proc and friends don't appear on the rox desktop of a clean pupsave.

Gvfs is also installed, maybe I didn't compile something with gvfs as a dependency, I'll take a look at that

As a side note, commenting out fstab leads to the undesired icons not appearing on the desktop, but naturally leads to some undesirable system side effects.

Geoffrey · #6 Post by **Geoffrey** » Thu 23 Feb 2017, 06:54

Doesn't pup-volume-monitor take care of the desktop icons too with xfce

Semme wrote:BS, so you know there's no issue with your fstab, Precise 571's copy is exactly the same.

Were listed devices OK prior to XFCE?

it's not a XFCE issue.

battleshooter · #7 Post by **battleshooter** » Thu 23 Feb 2017, 07:43

Geoffrey wrote:Doesn't pup-volume-monitor take care of the desktop icons too with xfce

That was one of my first guesses as well, but the problem existed prior to me compiling and installing pup-volume-monitor. Back then I had no drive icons at all other than proc, sys etc. Installing pup-volume brought in the regular drives.

battleshooter wrote:Gvfs is also installed, maybe I didn't compile something with gvfs as a dependency, I'll take a look at that

No dice hmm. I don't think xfdesktop depends on gvfs. I think what I really need to find is where xfdesktop is reading the drives from

battleshooter · #8 Post by **battleshooter** » Sun 03 Dec 2017, 01:04

Woohooo! Solved!

Thank you pemasu

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 905#975905

Solution is to compile glib with --disable-libmount

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[SOLVED]Proc, sys and pts being listed as drives

[SOLVED]Proc, sys and pts being listed as drives