Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 18:23:04 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: hal/gnome-mount issues Message-ID: <20090914012304.DAF231CC37@ptavv.es.net>
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I have found that recent versions of gnome hare re-introduced problems that I thought had been resolved. The most annoying is not being able to dismount gnome-mount mounted volumes. Sometimes I get a message that the operation is not allowed. This seems to happen only on ufs volumes. If I issue the command as root (sudo gnome-mount -u), the volume is dismounted, but gnome-mount immediately re-mounts it. I have never succeeded in getting my UFS media to dismount and stay dismounted without stopping Gnome. Another is that the volume was not mounted by gnome-mount and must be dismounted outside of gnome. I checked /media/.hal-mtab and, as claimed, the volume is not listed. I can add it to .hal-mtab and then I can dismount it, but I get to the problems above. The volume is immediately re-mounted. A minor issue which may be related is that the volumes usually don't mount when they are plugged in. If they were plugged in when gnome was started, they seem to mount, but they don't when gnome is already up. This can be worked around by doing something to access the disk. I usually issue a manual mount command to mount it elsewhere in the FS (not in .media) and then dismount it, It immediately re-mounts in /media, but can never be dismounted for the reasons listed above. Finally, gnome-mount will always report errors because it tries to mount all three 'devices' created, /dev, /dev/ufs, and /dev/ufsid. I had thought that /dev/ufsid was not used, but it still seems to be and I often see a df listing the ufsid version as the mounted device. I suspect all of these are related, but I can't be sure. Any suggestions as to where to look? I see this under both 7.2 and 8.0. All ports are up to date and all were rebuilt from ports after the 8.0 upgrade. Thanks, -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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