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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--=-nsHNzWwCdkcoT7rQe2IE Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-nsHNzWwCdkcoT7rQe2IE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAkqtu0QACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4co3ACfWwkyB3gC33k9KN1IT508Y/3z gUAAniDhngT53oK1pV4ym4s0TcfrIlKQ =jTYh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nsHNzWwCdkcoT7rQe2IE--
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