Problems with KDE and usb drive automounting

[John (J5) Palmieri]

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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John (J5) Palmieri <johnp at redhat.com>