Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 01:20:27 +0800 From: "Eric L. Chen" <d9364104@mail.nchu.edu.tw> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: "gnome@freebsd.org" <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: gnome-volume-manager-2.17 in gnome-2.20 Message-ID: <1192814427.2336.2.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4718E2F2.1070204@freebsd.org> References: <1192583665.1562.10.camel@localhost> <1192631342.1656.6.camel@localhost> <1192671994.1471.0.camel@localhost> <1192750918.401.1.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1192778221.1480.2.camel@localhost> <4718A989.7020205@freebsd.org> <1192812483.1741.7.camel@localhost> <4718E2F2.1070204@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:01 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > Eric L. Chen wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 08:56 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >> Eric L. Chen wrote: > >>> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 19:41 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > >>>> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:46 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote: > >>>>> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:29 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote: > >>>>>> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:14 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote: > >>>>>>> Hi, > >>>>>>> My gnome-volume-manager cannot startup after upgrade to gnome-2.20. > >>>>>>> That caused gnome will not mount USB disk automatically, this is a > >>>>>>> little problem because I've be using gnome+freebsd as my desktop > >>>>>>> for a long time. > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> After googled, this is not FreeBSD specified problem, it happened > >>>>>>> in archlinux, too. See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37544 > >>>>>>> Discuss more at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428810 > >>>>>>> I applied their patch and my gnome now can mount USB disk/CDROM > >>>>>>> automatically. > >>>>>> Hi Marcus, > >>>>>> I saw you committed patch to solve local user problem. > >>>>>> ---- > >>>>>> Fix a dumb bug where we would not be able to detect the local user > >>>>>> properly. > >>>>>> This bug was exposed when the integer overflow bug was fixed. This should > >>>>>> prevent g-v-m from terminating on startup. > >>>>>> ---- > >>>>>> But I still cannot startup g-v-m successfully, like: > >>>>>> ---- > >>>>>> ~> gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> ~> ps -ax|grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> ~> gnome-volume-manager -n > >>>>>> ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> 2232 p1 R+ 0:00.00 grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> ~> gnome-volume-manager --sm-disable > >>>>>> ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> 2236 p1 R+ 0:00.00 grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> ~> gnome-volume-manager -d yes > >>>>>> ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager > >>>>>> ---- > >>>>>> I am using Intel 2200BG wireless card, maybe it still has problem with wireless connection. > >>>>>> > >>>>> After more test, sometimes g-v-m cannot startup automatically, but > >>>>> sometimes not. > >>>> I cannot reproduce this behavior on either my i386 or amd64 GNOME 2.20 > >>>> machines. At the very least you will need to provide ktrace output of > >>>> when g-v-m does not start properly. Preferably, you should use gdb to > >>>> set breakpoints, and figure out why g-v-m is exiting prematurely. > >>>> > >>>> Joe > >>>> > >>> ktrace attached. > >>> g-v-m cannot auto startup, set in > >>> [System]->[Preferences]->[Sessions]->[Startup Programs]. > >>> But can start by [Alt]-[F2] "Run Application". > >> Looks like /var/run/utmp is 0 bytes. g-v-m opens this file, and scans > >> through it to confirm whether or not the current user is logged in > >> locally on the console. To do this, it looks for a utmp record on > >> either one of the ttyv devices or connected from :0.X where X is >= 0 > >> and <= 9. > >> > >> Looks like there might be some issue with the way you run X, or some > >> other problem manipulating /var/run/utmp. > >> > >> Joe > > I login via gdm by set gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf. > > The man said /var/run/utmp is used by rwho, users, w and who. > > Here is my laptop's output, it seem no problem: > > ~> rwho > > ~> users > > lihong > > ~> w > > 12:42AM up 1:19, 1 user, load averages: 0.21, 0.33, 0.31 > > USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE WHAT > > lihong p0 :0.0 12:19AM - w > > ~> who > > lihong ttyp0 Oct 20 00:19 (:0.0) > > ~> hexdump -C /var/run/utmp > > 00000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > 000002c0 74 74 79 70 30 00 00 00 6c 69 68 6f 6e 67 00 00 > > 000002d0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 3a 30 2e 30 00 00 00 00 > > 000002e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02 d9 18 47 74 74 79 70 > > 000002f0 31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > 00000300 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 > > 00000310 00 00 00 00 a0 dc 18 47 > > This looks fine, but the ktrace says that this file is zero bytes. Else > you've modified g-v-m's code, and then all bets are off. > > Joe Yes, so, I think the problem is that I login via gdm not any TTY, Because login via gdm will produce zero byte /var/run/utmp. /Eric
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