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On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:31 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Google led me to several pages where the problem was not having gvfs
> installed. I do have gvfs installed, but I suspect it's broken. I get
> the impression that
>
>     $ gio list sftp://<host>/<path>
>
> is supposed to work, but that too says "Operation not supported".

I don't use pcmanfm, but I do have gvfs installed. Trying to "gio list
sftp://host" returns "The specified location is not mounted", so at
least my behavior is different.  

(Disclaimer, I may not know what I am doing with gio/gvfs; it is pulled
in by thunar and evince on my system.)

I have gvfs built with the following use flags enabled: cdda, elogind,
gnome-keyring, policykit, udev, udisks

Not sure if any of this is helpful to you or not, but maybe it will
provide a clue.

On 2022-10-26, Matt Connell <matt@connell.tech> wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 21:31 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Google led me to several pages where the problem was not having gvfs
>> installed. I do have gvfs installed, but I suspect it's broken. I get
>> the impression that
>>
>>     $ gio list sftp://<host>/<path>
>>
>> is supposed to work, but that too says "Operation not supported".

Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just
happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the
same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a
mystery.

[.Is there a GNOME development group dedicated to making error messages
as meaningless as possible? If yes, then they're doing a stellar job.]

> I don't use pcmanfm, but I do have gvfs installed. Trying to "gio list
> sftp://host" returns "The specified location is not mounted", so at
> least my behavior is different.

After launching a dbus session with

$ dbus-launch bash

And then running 'gio list' in the bash instance that is created above,
I get the "location is not mounted error"

A subsequent gio mount command then succeeds

$ gio mount sftp://<host>/<path>

After which the "gio list" command works as expected.

When I run pcmanfm-qt from that same bash instance, sftp URLs work.

GNOME: making life overly complicated since 1999!

--
Grant

On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just
> happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the
> same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a
> mystery.

It is likely that nobody else noticed this because dbus has moved into
that "it is assumed to be there" tier of daemons these days. Like most
GNOME components, the GNOME developers are assuming all of GNOME is
available all of the time.

On 2022-10-26, Matt Connell <matt@connell.tech> wrote:
> On Wed, 2022-10-26 at 16:22 +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> Apparently, that error is cause by lack of a DBUS session. I just
>> happened to stumble across a posting somewhere by somebody who had the
>> same problem. How they figured out that was the problem remains a
>> mystery.
>
> It is likely that nobody else noticed this because dbus has moved into
> that "it is assumed to be there" tier of daemons these days.

The problem wasn't that the daemon was missing. There is a DBUS
daemon, and other things that use DBUS (e.g. notifications) work fine.

What was apparently missing was a "session"

$ set | grep dbus

$ dbus-launch bash

$ set | grep DBUS
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-45cBmpKpTX,guid=b783eda6500beba7132e450b63596c64

> Like most GNOME components, the GNOME developers are assuming all of
> GNOME is available all of the time.

Yep.

--
Grant

On 2022-10-26, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem wasn't that the daemon was missing. There is a DBUS
> daemon, and other things that use DBUS (e.g. notifications) work fine.
>
> What was apparently missing was a "session"
>
> $ set | grep dbus

(same result with "grep DBUS")

> $ dbus-launch bash
>
> $ set | grep DBUS
> DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-45cBmpKpTX,guid=b783eda6500beba7132e450b63596c64

Where is one supposed to strat a DBUS session? Should ssh logins have
one? Should each X session have one? Should each console login have
one? Should every bash instance have one?