Re: Okay, I give up… how to connect my (Android) phone properly (MTP)?

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2015-08-04 13:30 GMT+02:00 Petter Adsen <petter at synth.no>:

> On Tue, 4 Aug 2015 13:22:56 +0200
> Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 2015-08-04 12:52 GMT+02:00 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> >
> > > Johnny Rosenberg wrote:
> > > > I also tried:
> > > > $ gvfs-mount -u /dev/bus/usb/001/013
> > > > /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp\:host\=%5Busb%3A001%2C013%5D
> > > > Kunde inte hitta inneslutande montering: Infattande montering finns
> > > > inte $
> > > >
> > > > The error message means something like:
> > > > Could not find enclosing mount point: (Infattande) mount point does
> > > > not exist.
> > > > ”Infatta” means things like ”mount”, but ”mounting mount points”
> > > > doesn't make any sense to me… And I don't have a clue what this
> > > > message means even in Swedish (which is my native language since I
> > > > was born, almost 49 years ago…). I guess it just means that the mount
> > > > point doesn't exist (even though it does, doesn't it?)
> > >
> > > Maybe you should try the command(s) with LC_ALL=C to get English error
> > > messages. I don't know if those English error messages would make more
> > > sense, but sometimes only the translation isn't useful. So the command
> > > above would be this:
> > >
> > > LC_ALL=C gvfs-mount -u /dev/bus/usb/001/013
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > ”Error finding enclosing mount: Containing mount does not exist”
> >
> >
> > I have tried some more now. It seems like one of my attempts to unmount
> > actually worked, in spite of the messages, because I could mount it
> again.
> > However, not to the mountpoint of my choice:
> >
> > $ LC_ALL=C gvfs-mount -d /dev/bus/usb/001/013
> > /home/guraknugen/Skrivbord/MyPhone
> > Mounted /dev/bus/usb/001/013 at
> > /run/user/1000/gvfs/mtp:host=%5Busb%3A001%2C013%5D
> > $
> >
> > So it simply mounted it where it use to be mounted, not where I
> suggested.
> > Also, the man gvfs-mount page doesn't say anything about that the user
> can
> > select a place at all. It just says:
> >        gvfs-mount [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]
> >        gvfs-mount --unmount-scheme=SCHEME
> >        gvfs-mount --list [OPTION...]
> >        gvfs-mount --monitor [OPTION...]
>
>        gvfs-mount [OPTION...] [LOCATION...]
>
>        -d, --device=DEVICE
>            Mount the volume with the given device file.
>
> I take this to mean that you replace DEVICE with the device node and
> LOCATION with where you want to mount it, but I might be wrong.
>

Yes, that should be what it means, but it didn't work. The line I tried was:
gvfs-mount -d /dev/bus/usb/001/013 ${HOME}/Desktop/MyPhone
but it mounted it at the usual place without any kind of error message (the
few times it mounted it at all).


Kind regards

Johnny Rosenberg



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