Okay, I solved the problem. Analysis: Gnome 3 sucks. On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 5:49 PM, Francis Gerund <ranrund@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello. > > I am running Arch up-to-date 64-bit, with Gnome desktop environment. > Until recently, the Gnome-disk-utility (Gnome "Disks" program) was working > fine. > The Gnome-disk-utility is currently 3.20.1-1, apparently updated > 2016-04-12. > > Today, when I start it using either the icon on the favorites menu on the > left side of the desktop, or from the catch-all icon on the favorites menu, > that goes to all of the icons that actually launch application programs in > Gnome, either way I just get the drop-down menu labeled "Disks" in the top > menu bar of the Gnome desktop. No window appears for "Disks". > > In the drop-down menu there are 4 choices: > 1) "Attach disk image" > 2) "Help" > 3) "About" > 4) "Quit" > > Clicking Quit: the program never launches, the menu just goes away. > Clicking Help: the program never launches, but a Gnome Help window titled > "Disks & Storage" does pop up. > Clicking About: -nothing happens. > > Clicking "Attach disk image" just the far left part of a window pops up, > the rest of the window is past the right edge of the desktop. The window > is titled "Select Disk Image To Attach". It looks like a window from Gnome > "Files" (Nautilus). Clicking "Cancel" makes that window go away, revealing > the main "Disks" window, which *seems* to work as usual, but I am reluctant > to test it out. Clicking the "X" buttion dismisses the window, as > expected. > > (Note: at times investigating this, the gnome-disk-utility window(s) may > lock up, as well as the mouse, requiring the entire desktop to be "crashed" > manually using alt-ctl-bksp, to escape.) > > I have, in various combinations, > 1) rebooted > 2) updated (sudo pacman -Syyuv) > 3) reinstalled gnome-disk-utility (sudo pacman -Rs gnome-disk-utility) > 4) downgraded using the local package cache to the previous version,and > the the version before that (sudo pacman -U > gnome-disk-utility-3.20.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz, and sudo pacman -U > gnome-disk-utility-3.18.3.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz) > 5) upgraded gnome-disks-utility again (sudo pacman -U > gnome-disk-utility-3.20.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz) > 6) searched online for information > 7) told the problem it was not wanted here and to please go away. > > The problem did not go away. > > Note: part way through the process, gnome-terminal suddenly showed the > same problem, which went away as soon as gnome-terminal was reinstalled. So > I suspect that the problem may not be with gnome-desktop utility, but with > something else, perhaps recently updated, in the Gnome system. > > I did rely upon gnome-disk-utility, especially to manage external usb > disks without losing data, so this is a real problem. > > Has anyone else run into this problem? > > Any solutions? Any ideas? > > > > >
