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I have an internal HDD that gives this error when I try to mount either of its two partitions in Nautilus, while my main HDD works fine.

When I use Disks to mount it works but unmounting in Nautilus gives the same error. mount works too.

dmesg and syslog shows nothing special, so I don't know where to look for the relevant log. I hope someone can provide me some hints on this issue.

duo8
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I managed to workaround this issue online by simply restarting the gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor user service:

systemctl --user restart gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor

After that, mounting disks in Nautilus worked fine.

Morphit
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Apparently this question appeared on Google and many people are asking me to post an answer, so here it is.

  1. First, go to Dash (for Ubuntu) or run gparted using superuser, preferrably gparted-pkexec.
  2. Right click the partition, choose New UUID.
  3. Click the Apply button.

This solution should be permanent until you mess something up, so no worries.

Update: Some people claimed that just by having gparted refreshing information, the problems are solved. You should try that first, as refreshing UUID screws up fstab.

diamondburned
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I have temporary solution, try mounting with

sudo mount /dev/... /mnt/tothisdir

Or use "Disk" to mount or any other but not nautilus

kdm6389
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Maybe you should have a look at my Question & Solution for a detailed analysis ...

In short the GNOME Virtual File System or gvfs is not working at all.

However Do Not unmount & remove the /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs folder as suggested by other posters here (default User ID is 1000).

Find your gvfs folder and [USER ID]

$ mount | grep gvfs
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=jean)
$

List mount points used by gvfs. [NOTE: Since gvfs is not working it should be empty]

$ ls -als /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs
total 0
0 dr-x------  2 jean jean   0 Dec 22 17:42 .
0 drwx------ 10 jean jean 260 Dec 22 17:42 ..
$

Check whether the gvfsd daemon process is active

$ ps axu | grep gvfsd
jean      5993  0.0  0.0 680372  6356 ?        Sl   17:42   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd

Kill it with the following cmd.

$ sudo killall -9 gvfsd

Then relaunch the daemon (process)

$ sudo /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-fuse /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs

Well, that's it. It didn't show up straight as I needed to completely shutdown and restart the system (restarting the system without a complete shutdown will not work for me). But right after the system restart, gvfs worked fine and I had access to all partitions / drives within Nemo / Nautilus.

Previously, restarting the system would not solve anything.

Antonio
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In my case, there was a problem with one partition, so i had to manually mount the other (healhy) one.

  1. sudo parted -l check the I/O interface p.x. /dev/sda1
  2. sudo /media/mydisk create mount point
  3. sudo mount -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=0222 /dev/sdb1 /media/mydisk manually mount the ntfs partition
Michael Marinos Likouras
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I've been suffering from this annoying problem for a very long time, having to use the "restart" solution from this answer every day: https://askubuntu.com/a/1128845/1678908

I noticed that (same as other people commented in different forums) it affected some drives but not others. I did not want to be forced to change the UUID of my drives as of the answer https://askubuntu.com/a/860249/1678908

So I investigated further and I found that the problem was in the udisks2 configuration files at the folder /etc/udisks2

There were some old files there and also the udisks2 configuration file was somehow only referring to luks1 and not luks2

So I decided to clean up the udisks2 configuration and it worked! Now I don't have the error, even after rebooting and I did not have to change any UUID.

This is what I did in my Ubuntu 22.04 system:

sudo systemctl stop udisks2
sudo mv /etc/udisks2 /etc/udisks2-OLD
sudo systemctl start udisks2

After this it seemed to recreate the /etc/udisks2 directory automatically (empty) and nautilus works without any configuration files in there, properly asking for any encrypted drives password without the annoying D-Bus error anymore!

I suppose I could now even improve how udisks2 works by studying the udisks2 configuration files, but just leaving the /etc/udisks2 directory empty seems to work just fine for now.

I hope this helps!

David Bluecame
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Unmounting gvfs solved the problem for me:

umount -fl /home/user/.gvfs
rm -rf /home/user/.gvfs

I found that solution here

botchniaque
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If botchniaque's fix doesn't work for you, first check the gvfs mountpoint on your system:

mount | grep gvfs

On Ubuntu 15.10 it was mounted under /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs, so the following commands worked for me:

sudo umount -fl /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs
sudo rm -rf /run/user/[USER ID]/gvfs
sourav c.
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g.ptic
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For me none of the mentioned solutions worked out. Or at least they did not work immediately.

However, after I rebooted the machine, the drive worked.

So I don't know, whether a simple reboot fixed it or the umount/rm -method and a reboot after those.

mavavilj
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I had this problem. And I solve it with these commands.

Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install nfs-kernel-server
sudo apt install ntfs-3g
SIRJUE
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In my case, when I opened GParted the problem was solved, but upon restarting the computer, the same error persisted. I created this script to open GParted in the background and close it after five seconds. With this, the solution is permanent and I don't have to open GParted every time I log in.

#!/bin/bash
echo yourpassword | sudo -S nohup xvfb-run -a /usr/sbin/gparted %f > /tmp/gparted.log 2>&1 &
sleep 5s
echo yourpassword | sudo -S killall gpartedbin
exit 0

Replace "yourpassword" with your sudo password and place the script at the system login startup.

Todo-System Todo-System
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