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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:40:53 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc:        gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hal/gnome-mount issues
Message-ID:  <1252899653.97925.202.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090914030850.49B6F1CC37@ptavv.es.net>
References:  <20090914030850.49B6F1CC37@ptavv.es.net>

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On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 20:08 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
> > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:42:02 -0400
> >=20
> > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 18:23 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > > I have found that recent versions of gnome hare re-introduced problem=
s
> > > that I thought had been resolved.
> > >=20
> > > 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 getti=
ng
> > > my UFS media to dismount and stay dismounted without stopping Gnome.
> > >=20
> > > 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 claim=
ed,
> > > the volume is not listed.=20
> > >=20
> > > I can add it to .hal-mtab and then I can dismount it, but I get to th=
e
> > > problems above. The volume is immediately re-mounted.
> > >=20
> > > 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 wa=
s
> > > 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.
> > >=20
> > > Finally, gnome-mount will always report errors because it tries to mo=
unt
> > > 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.
> > >=20
> > > I suspect all of these are related, but I can't be sure. Any suggesti=
ons
> > > 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.
> >=20
> > I think some, if not all of these problems will be fixed when GNOME 2.2=
8
> > is imported.  The hal 0.5.13 update includes ufsid support, so the
> > duplicate mount problem should be gone.  However, I don't have any
> > user-mountable UFS file systems to really test.
>=20
> And, should I look for 2.28 soon after FBSD 8.0?

Yes.

Joe

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