FS#3336 - gnome-volume-manager does not automount devices despite running.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Saturday, 15 October 2005, 19:35 GMT
Last edited by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 11 December 2005, 21:57 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

hal-0.5.4-1
dbus-0.50-2
gnome-volume-manager-1.4.0-1

dbus/hal are running via their init scripts and gnome-volume-manager is running via gnome-session yet plugging in new devices (ipod, pen drive) and putting in data cds does nothing. dmesg shows that they are being detected yet gvm does not mount them. If I run gvm *after* the devices have been inserted/plugged, then it will mount them but it otherwise it seems that gvm is not acting as a daemon.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Wednesday, 22 March 2006, 22:37 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Fixed with GNOME 2.14 from testing. Make sure you're in the storage group though, otherwise gnome-volume-manager won't show or mount volumes.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Sunday, 13 November 2005, 19:27 GMT
With later updates I have found with hal-0.5.4-2 that hal is seeing my ipod as "iPo" (the info.product line in hal-device-manager) thus its not being treated correctly. With this updated version of hal, everything seems to work except my ipod when plugging.
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Sunday, 11 December 2005, 21:57 GMT
Re-opened by Luke Hoersten:

The bug still exists. Hal still reports my iPod as "iPo".
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Wednesday, 11 January 2006, 02:29 GMT
Running testing, GVM again does not auto-mount any hotplugged devices (ipod, usb key, digital camera). This has been an ongoing instability and I have yet to find sufficient debug information for the problem. dmesg and hal seem to report correctly so I think the problem is with GVM. I'd like someone to confirm or counter-confirm this.

A follow up to the 'iPo' problem, using other hal utilities, it looks like this is just a display problem with hal-device-manager. The iPod still does not mount.
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Sunday, 15 January 2006, 05:54 GMT
This problem is becoming worse. My digital camera will mount (not auto though). When I browse to it and start to copy images over (in nautilus or command line), the operation freezes. Naultius *always* freezes on picture 5 unless I only have like 1 picture then it will freeze on that. The command line copy has no progress so I can not tell you where that is freezing.

The setup which this is occuring is camera to usb (which works on my laptop with ArchLinux installed). When I do this on my desktop is when the problems happen. I get these errors:
...
> uba: uba1
drivers/usb/core/inode.c: creating file '069'
end_request: I/O error, dev uba, sector 4270
printk: 1297 messages suppressed.
Buffer I/O error on device uba1, logical block 4171
Buffer I/O error on device uba1, logical block 4172
...
from dmesg. Also, 5 pictures are copied over fine before the problem happens.

I am still unable to get automounting to work with any devices. This problem seems to happen with USB keys as well now (when it didnt used to happen).

Any suggestions as how to narrow down this problem?
Comment by Luke Hoersten (lhoerste) - Friday, 03 February 2006, 05:24 GMT
cd devices mount but my camera (and I don't think any USB deivce) wont mount. Filesystem type errors are given even if I explicitly set the filesystem type in fstab and I think this problem may be related to this bug (the error messages are simlar): http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/3497

Also, this same exact error was reported in ##gnome on irc.freenode.net by a debian user running deb unstable. Maybe ubuntu has some type of patch for it; if anyone runs ubuntu and would like to check, that'd be nice.
Comment by max (maxter) - Friday, 10 March 2006, 16:59 GMT
i've got the same problem and other people on the forum are reporting it...
is not a big problem, pmount does its work well, but for sure it is a really boring problem :-)

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