[arch-general] problems with ivman? hal? pmount?

[James Rayner]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 3:56 PM, Ryan Sims <rwsims at 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