Hotplugging, usb mass storage devices, and mountpoints...

[Jeff Spaleta]

On Sun, 26 Sep 2004 23:27:29 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak
<kyrre at solution-forge.net> wrote:
> Just wondering about something:
I think you a very very confused as to what pieces of technology do
what in the now hal-fied world. You also haven't stated which versions
of the packages you are using. Its vital to state clearly which
version of packages you have installed. In this case which version:
hal
dbus
kudzu
gnome-valume-manager
gamin 

> But the mountpoints are still there - so according to gnome's "my
> computer" - i now have tree floppy discs.

According to gnome? how about according /etc/fstab? are the
mountpoints under /media still there? Its important when trying to
narrow down the problem if /etc/fstab and the /media mountpoints being
updated correctly or not.  Hal interacts with /etc/fstab and /media/
mountpints. The gnome filemanager,nautilus, should be noticing changes
in /etc/fstab and updating the My Computer pane accordingly via the
gamin daemon. But without knowing if /etc/fstab is updating correctly
you can't know where in the software stack the problm actually is. Is
this a hal problem? or is this a gnome problem? So far I don't have
enough information to make a reasonable guess.

> 
> So i decided to upgrade hal and dbus, just to see if anything happens.
> "yum upgrade hal" and "yum upgrade dbus". Done. Log in (i was doing this
> over ssh) to see the effects. Quite astonishing - it had "cleaned up"
> all of my removable media stuff - ie. my cdrom, floppy, and all the
> extra floppys are gone. Okay... So i try to "hotplug" a cd into the
> drive. It spinns up for about a minute, and nothing happens. 

This is where the gnome-volume-manager comes in to play. You can
configure gnome to either automount cds or not automount cds. Did you
make sure gnome is configured to automount the cd? 
gnome-volume-properties is the command that corresponds to the
Preference Menu item "Removable Storage."  I have a development tree
synced test box and when i have gnome configured to automount data
cds... it worksforme.

> I then try
> to connect the camera. The usb activity light flashes a bit, but no new
> mountpoints... Thats... bad.
Again is gnome-volume-manager configured correct to mount removable
drives/media? These are  different setting than automounting cds in
gnome-volume-propeties. And again automounting both my camera and my
compact flash reader worksforme on my rawhide synced test box.

> Maybe kudzu could make a difference. So i start kudzu. 
Kudzu is not invovled. In fact running kudzu while logged into X might
have detrimental affects considering the hardware probing kudzu might
be doing.
And all it tries

I will reinterate that automounting cds usb-storage devices on my test
box fully updated to currently available development packages is
working for me.

-jef