hal/gnome-mount issues

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 22:42:02 -0400
> 
> 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.

And, should I look for 2.28 soon after FBSD 8.0?
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
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