Problems with KDE and usb drive automounting

[Fabio Comolli]

Hi John.
Selinux is disabled in my configuration so I'm not sure that it is the cause.

Fabio



On 2/14/06, John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com> wrote:
> Recent rawhide prevents HAL from starting up because of the privilege
> separation (HAL now runs with dropped privileges and has a helper daemon
> to execute scripts). SELinux wasn't updated to reflect this change yet.
>
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 09:32 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> > On 2/14/06, Fabio Comolli <fabio.comolli at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I debugged udev and it seems it's not its fault: device nodes are
> > > created correctly; however the /media directory is always empty. HAL
> > > is installed and running.
> >
> > I don't know what KDE in rawhide is configured to use in terms of dbus
> > related automounting... but the fact that fstab is empty is expected.
> > fstab-sync is gone and is being replaced with "pure" dbus/hal methods
> > which both desktop should be taking advantage of in their own way.  I
> > do not know the kde equivalent of gnome-volume-manager but I'm sure it
> > exists, other distributions use kde with "pmount" based on hal/dbus
> > interaction.
> >
> > I will say that I'm not surprised that you are having problems with
> > this in  rawhide KDE.. I'm having similar problems with GNOME at the
> > moment.  Devices are only being correctly seen by natilus and the
> > automounter if they are plugged in before login to the desktop.  Even
> > odder is if they are unplugged, nautilus continues to list them AND
> > the listing and mountpoint will get reused by another usb device even
> > though the listing and mountpoint are volume-label specific and should
> > NOT be re-used by a different storage device with a different volume
> > label.
> >
> > -jef
>
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