hal/gnome-mount issues

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 18:23 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I have found that recent versions of gnome hare re-introduced problems
> that I thought had been resolved.
> 
> The most annoying is not being able to dismount gnome-mount mounted
> volumes. Sometimes I get a message that the operation is not
> allowed. This seems to happen only on ufs volumes. If I issue the
> command as root (sudo gnome-mount -u), the volume is dismounted, but
> gnome-mount immediately re-mounts it. I have never succeeded in getting
> my UFS media to dismount and stay dismounted without stopping Gnome.
> 
> Another is that the volume was not mounted by gnome-mount and must be
> dismounted outside of gnome. I checked /media/.hal-mtab and, as claimed,
> the volume is not listed. 
> 
> I can add it to .hal-mtab and then I can dismount it, but I get to the
> problems above. The volume is immediately re-mounted.
> 
> A minor issue which may be related is that the volumes usually don't
> mount when they are plugged in. If they were plugged in when gnome was
> started, they seem to mount, but they don't when gnome is already
> up. This can be worked around by doing something to access the disk. I
> usually issue a manual mount command to mount it elsewhere in the FS
> (not in .media) and then dismount it, It immediately re-mounts in
> /media, but can never be dismounted for the reasons listed above.
> 
> Finally, gnome-mount will always report errors because it tries to mount
> all three 'devices' created, /dev, /dev/ufs, and /dev/ufsid. I had
> thought that /dev/ufsid was not used, but it still seems to be and I
> often see a df listing the ufsid version as the mounted device.
> 
> I suspect all of these are related, but I can't be sure. Any suggestions
> as to where to look? I see this under both 7.2 and 8.0. All ports are up
> to date and all were rebuilt from ports after the 8.0 upgrade.

I think some, if not all of these problems will be fixed when GNOME 2.28
is imported.  The hal 0.5.13 update includes ufsid support, so the
duplicate mount problem should be gone.  However, I don't have any
user-mountable UFS file systems to really test.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
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