[arch-general] problems with ivman? hal? pmount?
I'm working on switching from KDE to openbox, and I'm playing around with ivman automounting. After reading the wiki page[1] & following the instructions, I find that I still can't get USB devices to automount as a user. I can run ivman as a daemon, and it automounts just fine, except that it creates the mount points as root:root, so I can't access them. If I run ivman as a user, nothing gets automounted. When I run ivman -d, or when I run a pmount-hal '/path/listed/in/ivman/debug/output' I get a lot of these messages: process 17673: The last reference on a connection was dropped without closing the connection. This is a bug in an application. See dbus_connection_unref() documentation for details. Most likely, the application was supposed to call dbus_connection_close(), since this is a private connection. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace Any help? [1]http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ivman PS. I've also been exploring automounting with udev, but I run into the same permissions problem with pmount: users can't access the file. I would also welcome advice in this direction, if anyone's interested. -- Ryan W Sims
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Ryan Sims <rwsims@gmail.com> wrote:
PS. I've also been exploring automounting with udev, but I run into the same permissions problem with pmount: users can't access the file. I would also welcome advice in this direction, if anyone's interested.
Have you tried the udev rules as explained in the udev wiki article under Tips & Tricks? It should provide pretty simple automounting--I'm using it now (also with Openbox) because I'm sick of messing with hal.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Sims <rwsims@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm working on switching from KDE to openbox, and I'm playing around with ivman automounting. After reading the wiki page[1] & following the instructions, I find that I still can't get USB devices to automount as a user. I can run ivman as a daemon, and it automounts just fine, except that it creates the mount points as root:root, so I can't access them. If I run ivman as a user, nothing gets automounted.
When I run ivman -d, or when I run a pmount-hal '/path/listed/in/ivman/debug/output' I get a lot of these messages: process 17673: The last reference on a connection was dropped without closing the connection. This is a bug in an application. See dbus_connection_unref() documentation for details. Most likely, the application was supposed to call dbus_connection_close(), since this is a private connection. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
ivman has been unmaintained upstream for over 18 months. I now use the thunar volman plugin instead. Install thunar, and the thunar-volman plugin, then run thunar --daemon & in your startup scripts. James
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:02 AM, James Rayner <iphitus@iphitus.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Sims <rwsims@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm working on switching from KDE to openbox, and I'm playing around with ivman automounting. After reading the wiki page[1] & following the instructions, I find that I still can't get USB devices to automount as a user. I can run ivman as a daemon, and it automounts just fine, except that it creates the mount points as root:root, so I can't access them. If I run ivman as a user, nothing gets automounted.
When I run ivman -d, or when I run a pmount-hal '/path/listed/in/ivman/debug/output' I get a lot of these messages: process 17673: The last reference on a connection was dropped without closing the connection. This is a bug in an application. See dbus_connection_unref() documentation for details. Most likely, the application was supposed to call dbus_connection_close(), since this is a private connection. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
ivman has been unmaintained upstream for over 18 months. I now use the thunar volman plugin instead.
Aha, hadn't realized that.
Install thunar, and the thunar-volman plugin, then run thunar --daemon & in your startup scripts.
James
I'll give that a shot...I'm still wondering about the dbus "connection dropped" errors, I get the same thing when I run pmount-hal by hand; plain pmount works as advertised. Can anyone else reproduce this? -- Ryan W Sims
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:02 AM, James Rayner <iphitus@iphitus.org> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Sims <rwsims@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm working on switching from KDE to openbox, and I'm playing around with ivman automounting. After reading the wiki page[1] & following the instructions, I find that I still can't get USB devices to automount as a user. I can run ivman as a daemon, and it automounts just fine, except that it creates the mount points as root:root, so I can't access them. If I run ivman as a user, nothing gets automounted.
When I run ivman -d, or when I run a pmount-hal '/path/listed/in/ivman/debug/output' I get a lot of these messages: process 17673: The last reference on a connection was dropped without closing the connection. This is a bug in an application. See dbus_connection_unref() documentation for details. Most likely, the application was supposed to call dbus_connection_close(), since this is a private connection. D-Bus not built with -rdynamic so unable to print a backtrace
ivman has been unmaintained upstream for over 18 months. I now use the thunar volman plugin instead.
Install thunar, and the thunar-volman plugin, then run thunar --daemon & in your startup scripts.
James
I did just that, and it works a beaut. Still wish I knew what was up with pmount-hal and friends, but you gotta pick your battles, I guess. Thanks for the help. -- Ryan W Sims
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