Missing udisks-tcp-bridge binary for remote management

Right, we deliberately did not install that in lucid, since it is still a very new and untested feature, and landed upstream after feature freeze. We'll enable it in maverick.

The palimpsest error message leaves something to be desired, though. Adding a task for that.

Thanks.

Any chance of creating a separate optional package for udisks-tcp-bridge? Maybe in a PPA?

Marti [2010-04-29 10:06 -0000]:
> Any chance of creating a separate optional package for udisks-tcp-
> bridge? Maybe in a PPA?

Sure, anyone can provide that. It's just dropping
--disable-remote-access in debian/rules and adding

  etc/avahi/services/udisks.service

to debian/udisks.install

I created a udisks package with udisks-tcp-bridge in my PPA: https://launchpad.net/~intgr/+archive/ppa
This is my first time using a PPA, hopefully I did everything right.

To try it out, run this:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:intgr/ppa

Alternatively, the error might be "Unexpected stderr output - expected `udisks-tcp-bridge: Waiting for secret' but got `tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified'"

Thanks, Marti. It works fine with your package. Here is my mini how-to on getting it done in Ubuntu fresh installation. http://karuppuswamy.com/wordpress/2010/06/03/how-to-remote-disk-management-in-ubuntu-made-easy/

Be careful : with the new update of udisks version 1.0.1-1ubuntu it is impossible to read an internal or usb floppy. The solution is to downgrade udisks to 1.0.1-build1 as I explain here in detail :

http://users.skynet.be/linux-rixensart/1_suite.html#floppy

Lucien

Any hope to see this function implemented in 11.04?

I'll be back to the desktop team next cycle, and I'll deal with this during natty (11.04).

I tried to enable this in current natty, but this now fails. It expects "waiting for secret", but gets "stdin is not a tty" error. So this needs further debugging.

This bug was fixed in the package udisks - 1.0.2-4

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udisks (1.0.2-4) unstable; urgency=low

  * 02-defer_smart_probing.patch: Try SMART probing again repeatedly while the
    daemon is inhibited. (LP: #580112)
  * Add 00git-udf-permissions.patch: Ignore broken directory permissions on
    UDF when they are on readonly CD media. (LP: #635499)
  * debian/control: Improve package description. Thanks Justin B Rye!
    (Closes: #614146)
  * debian/control: Explain in the package description why udisks
    recommends/suggests file system creation/admin tools. (Closes: #595114)
  * Activate support for udisks-tcp-bridge. Note that this is purely
    convenience and does not enable extra privileges (can do the same with ssh
    and dbus-send). This unbreaks the "Connect to server.." functionality in
    gnome-disk-utility. (LP: #568926)
    - debian/rules: Drop --disable-remote-access.
    - debian/udisks.install: Install Avahi service description file.
  * Add debian/patches/00git-sd-card-id.patch: Add missing rule for
    identifying SD card readers as such. (LP: #460713)
 -- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:08:40 +0100