Gnome Disk Utility - No Disks Found

[SamK]

In TC3.1, after installing gnome-disk-utility its is started with the command palimpsest in lxterminal.  The following error message is received:

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in gdu_pool_finalize()

(palimpsest:8647): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_unref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed
Error creating pool: `Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory'

(palimpsest:8647): Palimpsest-CRITICAL **: Bailing out
The app starts i.e. the basic Disk Utility window opens but does not list any of the installed hard disks.
   

[tinypoodle]

Poking in the mist here, but is dbus running?

[SamK]

dbus is listed as a dependency but not started.  After manually starting dbus the disks are found but another problem is revealed.

Apart from identifying the disks (/dev/hdxx etc...) and their capacity all other information is missing e.g.

• Model = blank
• Partitioning = Unknown
• Partition Type = Unknown
• Label = Unknown

etc...
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These are populated when the app is run in Lubuntu
   

[Arslan S.]

this is because of udev in base

[Juanito]

this is because of udev in base

what particular aspect of udev in the base?

[Arslan S.]

when i compare lets say arch linux udev with tiny core udev there are many missing files, if tiny core team can make extra files that is not included in base an extension like udev-extra udisks will work better i believe

btw gnome-disk-utility depends on udisks and udisks depends on udev

[SamK]

this is because of udev in base

The following are intended as suggestions to enhance the the ease of use; they are in no way intended to be derogatory.

If an application has limitations placed upon it, it is helpful to be forewarned by comments in the info file.  In the current matter these could be the need to manually start dbus and that a limited amount of information is reported by the app.

A further idea; it will also be helpful if Disk-Utility is started from a small script which checks whether dbus is currently running, start it if needed, start palimpsest, when Disk-Utility is closed ensure dbus is at the same status as before running the script.
   

[Juanito]

when i compare lets say arch linux udev with tiny core udev there are many missing files, if tiny core team can make extra files that is not included in base an extension like udev-extra udisks will work better i believe

..there are some extras in udev-dev (in addition to dev files), but maybe you mean additional udev-rules?