Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:23:08 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Volker <volker@vwsoft.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: gnome-mount & glabel Message-ID: <1179156188.36510.0.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <464838DD.3030209@vwsoft.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 12:24 +0200, Volker wrote: > Hi! > > Some weeks back I was having some trouble with gnome-mount which I was > unable to figure out in detail. Last weekend I started to experience > some similar problems on another machine and I decided to take a > closer look. > > What I was able to figure out is using glabel is causing gnome-mount > not being able to dismount mounted volumes and refusing to mount > unmounted volumes. The error while trying to mount is a null info > message and when trying to unmount a volume one gets a "mounted by > another UID" message. > > When not using glabel (not kldload'ing glabel) gnome-mount works > properly. I haven't been able to investigate deeply so this is just a > BIG FAT WARNING not to use glabel with gnome as long as this problem > is not solved. Probably it's an hal problem and g-m is not at fault. > > Both machines are recent RELENG_6 + Gnome 2.18. > > Joe: When the Xorg upgrade has finished (I guess you're busy these > days - I'm also currently trying the upgrade path so I'm also unable > to investigate till the Xorg upgrade has done) can you point me to > some instructions on how we get deeper into this issue? Or are you > able to recreate the problem? > > To recreate the symptoms, just `glabel load', start gnome (and > probably restart hal before) and try to mount / dismount volumes. Or > use geom_label_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf This works fine for me. The only known issue with glabel and HAL is when you have volumes that have spaces in their labels. This is actually a bug with GEOM. The only workaround is to relabel the volumes without spaces. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBGSH7ab2iPiv4Uz4cRAks/AKCoyjnX8+ArQPuIhxfLUWvz/1wqqgCfdJlo pl38ifysyTExnvwxiiBAQVE= =aToJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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