gnome-volume-manager-2.17 in gnome-2.20

[Eric L. Chen]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 13:01 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> Eric L. Chen wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 08:56 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >> Eric L. Chen wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 19:41 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>>> 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
> >>>>
> >>> ktrace attached.
> >>> g-v-m cannot auto startup, set in
> >>> [System]->[Preferences]->[Sessions]->[Startup Programs].
> >>> But can start by [Alt]-[F2] "Run Application".
> >> Looks like /var/run/utmp is 0 bytes.  g-v-m opens this file, and scans
> >> through it to confirm whether or not the current user is logged in
> >> locally on the console.  To do this, it looks for a utmp record on
> >> either one of the ttyv devices or connected from :0.X where X is >= 0
> >> and <= 9.
> >>
> >> Looks like there might be some issue with the way you run X, or some
> >> other problem manipulating /var/run/utmp.
> >>
> >> Joe
> > I login via gdm by set gnome_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf.
> > The man said /var/run/utmp is used by rwho, users, w and who.
> > Here is my laptop's output, it seem no problem:
> > ~> rwho
> > ~> users
> > lihong
> > ~> w
> > 12:42AM  up  1:19, 1 user, load averages: 0.21, 0.33, 0.31
> > USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
> > lihong           p0       :0.0             12:19AM     - w
> > ~> who
> > lihong           ttyp0    Oct 20 00:19 (:0.0)
> > ~> hexdump -C /var/run/utmp
> > 00000000  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > 000002c0  74 74 79 70 30 00 00 00  6c 69 68 6f 6e 67 00 00
> > 000002d0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  3a 30 2e 30 00 00 00 00
> > 000002e0  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  02 d9 18 47 74 74 79 70
> > 000002f0  31 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > 00000300  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> > 00000310  00 00 00 00 a0 dc 18 47
> 
> This looks fine, but the ktrace says that this file is zero bytes.  Else
> you've modified g-v-m's code, and then all bets are off.
> 
> Joe
Yes, so, I think the problem is that I login via gdm not any TTY,
Because login via gdm will produce zero byte /var/run/utmp.

/Eric