mount-sdcard

Fri, 2021/05/28 - 15:42

I've recently done a clean flash of latest available version (4.0), for the sake of testing various things, and when I installed mount-sdcard yesterday (latest), after reboot, rhe problem appeared. Si I uninstalled it and rebooted, and it was back to normal.

Thu, 2021/06/03 - 02:32

As denoted, the reason is the specific community device adaptation for the Xperia XZ2 & XZ3 series.

P.S. / edit (2021-06-01):
mount-sdcard 1.8.0 handles the different (compared to all devices supported by Jolla) mapping of the device-internal, fixed mass storage on some community device adaptations (Xperia XZ[23]{c}, FxTec Pro¹ etc.) well.

Sun, 2021/05/30 - 04:20

Replied on TMO - sorry for confusion. ..

Fri, 2021/05/28 - 00:54

Olf - could you take a look at this - https://forum.sailfishos.org/t/strange-storage-issue/6252 ... I think I traced it to mount-sdcard app.

Fri, 2021/05/28 - 01:49

Oh, thanks for denoting. So uninstalling mount-sdcard resolves that?
If so, please open an issue at github with (at least) the information requested below.

BTW, it was tricky for me to gather the environment precisely: "An XZ2c 8314, with Rinigus' SFOS-adaption, and updated per OTA from 3.4.0 to 4.0.1. But these effects did not start until about a week ago…".

Did you install or update mount-sdcard at that point of time?

I assume you are using mount-sdcard 1.6.1 (as v1.7.2 was released yesterday and you experience these issues for weeks), right?

Side note: I am glad about bug reports on SFOS 4.x.y, but I have it only running on a single testing device (XA2), my other SFOS devices are all still on SFOS 3. With some more information I may be able to retrace your issue on this XA2, if it is really related to mount-sdcard.

Fri, 2021/05/28 - 15:47

You mentioned posting "information below", but not sure what info you need. .. Current state is Xperia XZ2 Compact, clean flash 4.0.1.48, no modifications. Storage is mounted normally until installing mount-sdcard, then the issue apears.
Also, one thing I was interested in installing it for is the info that says it will enable sd card access on Android, but not working. I do get a popup "allow access?" but still no file management functions are successful.
Thanks

Sat, 2021/05/29 - 00:10

Thanks, I became confused by the info you provided at FSO.
Solely looking at your description here provides a much clearer picture.

Based on this information, I created mount-sdcard issue #41.
It would be very helpful, if you answer the "open question" ("Which version have you tested?") and carry out a little initial analysis (a single ls command), there.

I suspect that things may be different on this community port compared to an SFOS installation on an officially supported device.

Sat, 2021/05/29 - 21:30

ok - left responses... Thanks

Sun, 2021/05/30 - 00:13

Thank you @levone.
Your command line output shows that the mapping of partition on internal eMMC on this community port of SailfishOS is quite different to all officially supported devices.

I will continue to update mount-sdcard issue #41, and hopefully come to a solution without detrimental effects on the devices supported by Jolla (because that would be no acceptable solution for me).

Thu, 2021/06/03 - 02:30

mount-sdcard 1.8.0 is handling your community device adaptation well, see here for details.

tad

Sun, 2021/02/21 - 16:43

the latest release (1.3.4.25) bricks my device (Jolla C). Can't get past boot screen anymore

Sun, 2021/02/21 - 19:58

@tad, sorry, but are you sure, that this is related? The changes in v1.3.4 compared to v1.3.3 are minimal and I cannot see that any of these changes could cause this.
Or did you not have v1.3.3 installed before (hence the flaw may already be in that version)?

Nevertheless, I retracted v1.3.4 to be cautious, and may rerelease it, when this is fully understood.

@tad, can you please use the recovery console, select "Shell" and uninstall mount-sdcard per pkcon remove mount-sdcard (or rpm -e mount-sdcard), then reboot. Please report back (here), if that made your device boot again; if not, mount-sdcard was not the cause.

tad

Sun, 2021/02/21 - 19:40

@olf sorry for the missing context: I had v1.3.2 installed before that, so the upgrade was from 1.3.2 to v1.3.4, running on Sailfish OS 4.

I booted into recovery console and within the shell (and another chroot to /rootfs) I could remove mount-sdcard with rpm -e. After reboot the boot problem persisted but between the last working reboot and the first non-working reboot, mount-sdcard was literally the only package that I upgraded and I did not change any system settings in between.

Sun, 2021/02/21 - 20:53

@tad, sorry that I missed to mention the "chroot to /rootfs" before issuing an "rpm -e" at the recovery console's shell.
But as mount-sdcard is uninstalled now, and it does not alter or replace any extant files in the first place (hence your SFOS installation should be in a state now, as if mount-sdcard was never installed before), I do not believe that the update from v1.3.2 to v1.3.4 caused the "boot blocker" on your JollaC@SFOS4.0.1.

Also:

Meanwhile I tried to look thoroughly at all aspects (functionality, rebooting etc.) of mount-sdcard 1.3.4 on an XperiaXA2+@SFOS4.0.1 and an XperiaX@SFOS3.2.1: All seems to work fine.
Comparing the changes between mount-sdcard 1.3.2 and 1.3.4 also does not reveal anything obviously intrusive or "dangerous" (in general, mount-sdcard is past that stage for long).

Hence I am considering to re-release v1.3.4 unchanged, if no other user reports similar issues with it.
Thus, if anyone else does experience an issue with mount-sdcard 1.3.x, please report it at mount-sdcard's issue tracker ("ASAP" ;-) ).

SebMa

Thu, 2019/12/12 - 04:27

@olf Hi, is this app able to mount an exfat formatted sdcard ?

Mon, 2019/12/30 - 21:44

Yes, mount-sdcard mounts every file system supported by the OS.

I.e., for exFAT one has to install exFAT file system support and shall also install the corresponding exFAT utils, because SailfishOS does not support exFAT out of the box.

Thu, 2019/05/02 - 21:35

@olf: Does your script still working with 3.0.3.8 as Jolla has changed the mounting trigger from init to systemd? I'm scared to run into problems. Thanks for your advice in advance.

Tue, 2019/05/28 - 23:55

Yes, I am generally aware of some change coming (but not its technical details or when) and most likely mount-sdcard 1.0 (and older versions) will cease to "work" when a significant change occurs, in the sense that mount-sdcard is not executed anymore (i.e., "does nothing" then). As I have not subscribed "Early Access (EA)", because that affects all devices registered under a Jolla account, I will have the chance to check and adapt mount-sdcard if necessary, when SFOS 3.0.3 GA is released.
But still all other aspects of my answer to the same question WRT upgrading to SailfishOS 3.0.1 hold true, thus there is no reason to be afraid or even "scared".

Sat, 2019/05/04 - 00:53

Thanks for your swift reply. I've had a problem with my phone already due to some careless updating on my side. And it tooked me three months to recover from that in my very limited spare time. Luckily my Jolla 1 was still working and still is. Therefore I wait till 3.0.3.8 is GA, which may still take some time due to some unpleasant issues Jolla discovered.

Wed, 2019/05/08 - 02:22

mount-sdcard works as usual after upgrading to SailfishOS 3.0.3.9 (the 3.0.3 version, which reached "general availability (GA)" status).

Just a quick check; no analysis yet, if anything changed at all WRT mounting unencrypted SD-cards or if mount-sdcard was just not affected.

Sat, 2019/05/11 - 02:23

Analysis: Nothing was changed WRT mounting unencrypted SD-cards and USB storage devices in SailfishOS 3.0.3.

Sat, 2019/05/11 - 10:49

Thats great news. Thanks for checking on it.

Sun, 2019/10/27 - 15:39

BTW, mount-sdcard is in "maintenance mode" since version 1.0, as it appears to be stable and feature complete for its users. That means there will be no new releases, unless bugs are reported (preferably at Github) or a new SailfishOS release breaks it.

Pemek

Mon, 2019/01/21 - 00:47

For me it didn't. Later it turned out a fuse-exfat bug (I took it from different repo), so I reformatted sd to vfat + ext4 and now works flawlessly.

Pemek

Mon, 2019/01/14 - 13:21

Does it work in 3.0.1.11?

Thu, 2019/01/17 - 01:43

I guess so, but haven't tried yet.
Why don't you try and report your experience here?

At worst (quite unlikely though), mounting the SD-card fails.
If you uninstall mount-sdcard then, the SFOS installation is exactly in the state it would be without ever having installed mount-sdcard (as it alters no system files), so there is no risk involved in trying.

Sun, 2019/01/20 - 00:03

Yes, it does.

MooCrumpus

Sun, 2019/01/06 - 17:50

works fine, thank you very much!

Sun, 2018/10/28 - 22:56

The script hasn't mounted my ext4 SD card. God knows why. I hate to trouble shot.

Mon, 2018/10/29 - 23:21