gnome-volume-manager-2.17 in gnome-2.20

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Oct 18 16:41:58 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 09:46 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 22:29 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 09:14 +0800, Eric L. Chen wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > My gnome-volume-manager cannot startup after upgrade to gnome-2.20.
> > > That caused gnome will not mount USB disk automatically, this is a
> > > little problem because I've be using gnome+freebsd as my desktop 
> > > for a long time.
> > > 
> > > After googled, this is not FreeBSD specified problem, it happened
> > > in archlinux, too. See http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37544
> > > Discuss more at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=428810
> > > I applied their patch and my gnome now can mount USB disk/CDROM
> > > automatically.
> > Hi Marcus,
> > I saw you committed patch to solve local user problem.
> > ----
> > Fix a dumb bug where we would not be able to detect the local user
> > properly.
> > This bug was exposed when the integer overflow bug was fixed.  This should
> > prevent g-v-m from terminating on startup.
> > ----
> > But I still cannot startup g-v-m successfully, like:
> > ----
> >  ~> gnome-volume-manager 
> >  ~> ps -ax|grep gnome-volume-manager
> >  ~> gnome-volume-manager -n
> >  ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager
> >  2232  p1  R+     0:00.00 grep gnome-volume-manager
> >  ~> gnome-volume-manager --sm-disable
> >  ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager
> >  2236  p1  R+     0:00.00 grep gnome-volume-manager
> >  ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager
> >  ~> gnome-volume-manager -d yes
> >  ~> ps -ax | grep gnome-volume-manager
> > ----
> > I am using Intel 2200BG wireless card, maybe it still has problem with wireless connection.
> > 
> After more test, sometimes g-v-m cannot startup automatically, but
> sometimes not.

I cannot reproduce this behavior on either my i386 or amd64 GNOME 2.20
machines.  At the very least you will need to provide ktrace output of
when g-v-m does not start properly.  Preferably, you should use gdb to
set breakpoints, and figure out why g-v-m is exiting prematurely.

Joe

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