Problem with gam_server

[John Wendel]

Running up to date FC3.

I just burned a DVD and mounted it to check the files. When I tried to 
umount it, umount said it was busy. lsof showed that the gam_server had 
grabbed it.

So, not really knowing WTF the gam_server was, I tried man gam_server, 
no luck, and apropos gam, still no luck. I hate stuff that doesn't have 
a man page.

It can't be uninstalled, too many dependencies. I checked the services 
configuration menu, no luck. I grepped /etc looking for a configuration 
file entry that said gam_server, but found nothing.

Can someone tell me how to configure this POS so it doesn't grab my 
mounted devices. Better yet, can I just make it go away?

Thanks,

John

[Pete Savage]

I have had the same problem.  No matter how hard I tried there was actually 
no way I could find to kill gam_server.  I searchde the net high and low !
even tried commands like
kill -9 <process_id> && umount <cddrive>
But to no avail.
If you find out, please let me know
thanx
Pete



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> Running up to date FC3.
>
> I just burned a DVD and mounted it to check the files. When I tried to 
> umount it, umount said it was busy. lsof showed that the gam_server had 
> grabbed it.
>
> So, not really knowing WTF the gam_server was, I tried man gam_server, no 
> luck, and apropos gam, still no luck. I hate stuff that doesn't have a man 
> page.
>
> It can't be uninstalled, too many dependencies. I checked the services 
> configuration menu, no luck. I grepped /etc looking for a configuration 
> file entry that said gam_server, but found nothing.
>
> Can someone tell me how to configure this POS so it doesn't grab my mounted 
> devices. Better yet, can I just make it go away?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
>
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[Hacksaw]

> Can someone tell me how to configure this POS so it doesn't grab
> my 
> mounted devices. Better yet, can I just make it go away? 

Well, I have to say that the configuration leaves something to be desired.

In fact, looking over things, I'd say this is another case of redhat engineers 
using a tool without fully considering how the endusers might react.

I suspect you might have to look closely at those packages which depend on it, 
and decide if you need them. I base this idea on the fact that the 
configuration file documentation doesn't seem to say whether certain paths may 
be excluded.

In any case, the documentation, as such it is, starts with 

file:///usr/share/doc/gamin-0.0.15/index.html

Off hand, I'd guess gam_server is started by nautilus.
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[John Wendel]

Hacksaw wrote:
> >Can someone tell me how to configure this POS so it doesn't
> grab my 
> >mounted devices. Better yet, can I just make it go away?
>  
>  
>  
>  Well, I have to say that the configuration leaves something to be desired.
>  
>  In fact, looking over things, I'd say this is another case of redhat engineers 
>  using a tool without fully considering how the endusers might react.
>  
>  I suspect you might have to look closely at those packages which depend on it, 
>  and decide if you need them. I base this idea on the fact that the 
>  configuration file documentation doesn't seem to say whether certain paths may 
>  be excluded.
>  
>  In any case, the documentation, as such it is, starts with 
>  
>  file:///usr/share/doc/gamin-0.0.15/index.html
>  
>  Off hand, I'd guess gam_server is started by nautilus. 
Good guess, but no cigar in this case. I'm running KDE and I've never 
run nautilus. It looks like this thing is wired into KDE at some fairly 
low level. If I wanted crap like this, I'd just run M$.

Regards,

John

[Alexander Apprich]

John,

John Wendel wrote:
>  Running up to date FC3.
>  
>  I just burned a DVD and mounted it to check the files. When I tried to 
>  umount it, umount said it was busy. lsof showed that the gam_server had 
>  grabbed it.
>  
>  So, not really knowing WTF the gam_server was, I tried man gam_server, 
>  no luck, and apropos gam, still no luck. I hate stuff that doesn't have 
>  a man page.
>  
>  It can't be uninstalled, too many dependencies. I checked the services 
>  configuration menu, no luck. I grepped /etc looking for a configuration 
>  file entry that said gam_server, but found nothing.
>  
>  Can someone tell me how to configure this POS so it doesn't grab my 
>  mounted devices. Better yet, can I just make it go away?
>   
there are serval problems known w/ gam_server. Funny I never had any
problems unmount devices as a user. What version of gamin are you
running? I just updated gamin to gamin.i386 0:0.0.24-1.FC3

Also, did you manually change /etc/fstab for /media/[cdrom/floppy/etc]?

>  Thanks,
>  
>  John
>  
>   
Alex

[Mike Klinke]

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:36, John Wendel wrote:
 
 
>  So, not really knowing WTF the gam_server was, I tried man
>  gam_server, no luck, and apropos gam, still no luck. I hate stuff
>  that doesn't have a man page.
>  
Gamin doc's local to your system are at:

/usr/share/doc/gamin-0.0.24 
 

The web location for gamin is:

http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/

and there's a mailing list there too if you're so inclined.


>   Better yet, can I just make it go away? 
I wrestled with this a bit when FC3 first came out due to a problem 
I no longer remember but found that it was located in:

/usr/libexec/

and, as a test, moving it out of this directory stopped it from 
being loaded.  

Regards, Mike Klinke


Regards, Mike Klinke

[John Wendel]

Mike Klinke wrote:
>  On Tuesday 01 March 2005 01:36, John Wendel wrote:
>   
>   
>  
> >So, not really knowing WTF the gam_server was, I tried man
> >gam_server, no luck, and apropos gam, still no luck. I hate stuff
> >that doesn't have a man page.
> >
>  
>  
>  Gamin doc's local to your system are at:
>  
>  /usr/share/doc/gamin-0.0.24 
>   
>  
>  The web location for gamin is:
>  
>  http://www.gnome.org/~veillard/gamin/
>  
>  and there's a mailing list there too if you're so inclined.
>  
>  
>  
> > Better yet, can I just make it go away?
>  
>  
>  I wrestled with this a bit when FC3 first came out due to a problem 
>  I no longer remember but found that it was located in:
>  
>  /usr/libexec/
>  
>  and, as a test, moving it out of this directory stopped it from 
>  being loaded.  
>  
>  Regards, Mike Klinke 

Thanks for the tip. Goodbye gam_server!

John