Description of problem: Exchanging files between a smartphone and Mageaia with mtp over USB works with Mageia-7, but not on Cauldron (for me, using Xfce/Thunar, but a similar problem appears to exist with Kde/dolphin. When the smartphone (Samsung Galaxy S9) is connected via USB, a "SAMSUNG" tab (correctly) appears in the sidebar of Thunar ("Devices" section) - but doing a right-click on that tab does not trigger any action - hitting "Open" produces the response is "Failed to mount "SAMSUNG Androi". No MTP devices found) - no action whatever with the other buttons - hovering over this tab launches a display:mtp://SAMSUNG_SAMSUNG_Android_23dc29813b057ece (/dev/bus/usb/001/012) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: 100% Steps to Reproduce: see above Some observations: - Apparently, the Samsung device is recognised and connected as device 012 on bus 001 (according to the message when hovering over the button, and according to the fact that the node /dev/bus/usb/001/012 is created when the smartphone is connected - lsbusb does not "see" this, for bus 001 only devices 001 through 011 are listed - /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libsane.rules contains many entries for Samsung devices, but nothing for Galaxy - as opposed to Mageia-7 where such entries exist. Looks like the automatic mounting process for this kind of usb devices is broken an Cauldron. - lots of bugs refer to similar problems, but most of these bugs are on previous Mageia releases, and got resolved in Mageia-7. There is one bug - bugzilla 21095 that has probably the same cause - somewhat arbitrary to have now filed a new bug - Note: on my system the mtpfs package is installed.
Known issue. Samsung phones don't work with mtpfs. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 7638 ***
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => DUPLICATE
Comment 1 does not take into account that (some - all?) Samsung phones do work with mtpfs in Mageia-7 - comments in bugzilla 7638 are not up to date. In Mageia-7 /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-libmtp.rules there exists a long list of rules for - among others - Samsung phones that specify how these devices are to be mounted when they are connected to usb; at least for my Samsung S9, mounting and transfer over mtp worked perfectly with Mageia-7 In Cauldron this list has gone away, and .../.60-libmtp.rules has shrunk to a short stub - Samsung phones, therefore and evidently cannot work any more. The problem looks like a simple case of regression that should be easy to fix. How is this problem going to be handled - reopen this bug? shift the necessary activity to another bug?
Please use Bug 7638 for this. No, mtpfs does not work for all Samsung Galaxy phones. It does not work on Mageia 7 with an S10e, just the same as the S7 and S4 didn't work with Mageia 5.