Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:08:50 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hal/gnome-mount issues Message-ID: <20090914030850.49B6F1CC37@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:42:02 EDT." <1252896122.97925.201.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:42:02 -0400 > > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 18:23 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > 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. > > I think some, if not all of these problems will be fixed when GNOME 2.28 > 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. And, should I look for 2.28 soon after FBSD 8.0? -- 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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