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

[Ryan Sims]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 7:02 AM, James Rayner <iphitus at iphitus.org> wrote:
> 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.

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