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".
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.
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.
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.
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
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