nautilus no longer notifies when a new drive has been added

[PaulW2U]

For me, Ubuntu 18.10 has been the most problematic release during the development phase since the introduction of Unity back in 2011. I recently installed the beta after reverting to Ubuntu 18.04 for a month or two and found that most of my problems had gone.

Last night I decided to look into why nautilus is no longer notifying me when a new drive is added. I certainly get a notification in Ubuntu 18.04 and also do when using the Cosmic beta in a live session. My Cosmic installation no longer notifies me which is something that I can reproduce using yesterday's ISO (20181009) in a live session on two PCs.

Anyone else? I'll check today's ISO when it's available later today.

Bug report: nautilus no longer notifies when a new drive has been added


Edit: today's ISO (20181010) tested in a live session. Again no notification.

[dino99]

I have no such a issue with mine (gnome on xorg session), but its not a fresh install like yours (ex bionic dist-upgraded).
The first thing that come up to my mind is about the 'recommend' packages: are they installed by default as dependencies ?
Do you have the DE metapackage installed ?

[PaulW2U]

Thanks for your reply dino99. Yes, 'Recommends' are installed by default. 'ubuntu-desktop' is definitely in place and received an update yesterday.

My main concern is that I'm also seeing this in a live-session without any changes being made. This did not happen with my first live-session test which was with the beta ISO. So something has changed since the beta's release. I get other notifications such as a backup starting or finishing on my external drive it's just the notification of the initial connection of that drive that now fails to appear.

[dino99]

oh, then the beta install package you have used is incomplete/corrupted/.... (is it the packaging/ubiquity/dependence fault ?)
i remember a bad experince of my own with a bionic fresh install which let me with a working system, but getting 96 MTU instead of 1500 as usuel. Never found the solution to repare that bad installation. I have used a script to force MTU but finally did a new fresh install.

[PaulW2U]

The beta ISO was fine and.as I have already said yesterday's test using it was successful in a live session as the notifications were displayed.

My installation after being updated and two recent ISOs are the problem.

I'm away from home for a while now. Hopefully someone can test today's ISO and confirm the bug or maybe point to what has changed recently so that I can investigate further.

[P-I H]

Downloaded the 20181010.1 version and used "Try Ubuntu"
Used an USB with an iso image and used an USB with ext4 data.
I didn't got any notifications, but the USB:s were mounted OK. Got notifications when I unmounted the USB:s.
Installed the ISO with no problems. Actually looked very good.
Tested with the USB:s and got no notifications.
My main system running a fully updated Cosmic has actually the same behaviour.
Added me to the bug report.

[PaulW2U]

Added me to the bug report.

Thanks for confirming. I don't like bugs that affect only me.
I see from IRC that the Desktop Team are aware of the bug report. Hopefully they'll look into it and fix before next Thursday.

[PaulW2U]

Just received an update to gnome-shell (3.30.1-2ubuntu1) and amazingly the issue is fixed. So again, I find a problem, report a bug, post here and the fix appears within hours. Obviously it was already being worked on although I can't see anything in the changelog to indicate what the problem actually was.

I've also tested with today's second ISO, 20181010.1 and after fully updating a live session I see that the notification appears as expected when plugging in a USB drive.

I'll mark this as 'solved' as the problem was rectified by an update.

[P-I H]

Yes, works OK on both my systems after update and reboot.

[Frogs Hair]

I get notifications for USB and also read/write privileges are working again on Cosmic after a bug with Bionic.