garnome gnome 2.12.1 gamin, HAL and dbus (longish ....)

[Mark Carey <mark carey gmail com>]

Ok so I am now all up and running, just a couple of wee things to sort out.

Firstly as I had built GARNOME according to the instructions, ``thou
shall not run GARNOME as root'', post install I changed the
permissions on my install from mark.mark to root.root with this little
gem,

cd /opt/gnome2.12.1
find -user mark | xargs chown root.root

I used this as I was anticipating to find fles owned by haldaemon and
messagebus but it appears not to be the case.  HAL and dbus never the
less start

[mark jersey:~]$ ps aux | grep hal
root      2653  0.0  0.4   4956  3672 ?        Ss   20:29   0:00
/opt/gnome2.12.1/sbin/hald --retain-privileges
root      2658  0.0  0.0   1796   624 ?        S    20:29   0:00 hald-addon-acpi
root      2662  0.0  0.0   1796   632 ?        S    20:29   0:00
hald-addon-storage
mark      3357  0.0  0.0   1544   436 pts/1    R+   20:45   0:00 grep hal

[mark jersey:~]$ ps aux | grep dbus
101       2642  0.0  0.1   2008   980 ?        Ss   20:29   0:00
/opt/gnome2.12.1/bin/dbus-daemon
--config-file=/opt/gnome2.12.1/etc/dbus-1/system.conf
mark      2876  0.0  0.0   2512   744 tty1     S    20:29   0:00
dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session-1
mark      2877  0.0  0.1   2004   972 ?        Ss   20:29   0:00
dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6 --session

[mark jersey:~]$ cat /etc/passwd | grep hal
haldaemon:x:102:102::/dev/null:/bin/false

[mark jersey:~]$ cat /etc/passwd | grep messagebus
messagebus:x:101:101::/dev/null:/bin/false

The only headache from changing the ownership of the files is I had to
re-run gst-register to get volume control and rhythmbox back up.

*Questions*

1. Given that HAL and dbus both appear to be working I was expecting
to plug in my flash drive and get an icon on the desktop, but no joy -
any clues?

I can insert the flash drive and click on usb in computer and I can
then access the contents of the flash drive.

2. Also if I have a nautilus window open and I use the terminal to
`touch newfile` I was expecting nautilus to refresh and show the new
contents - due to gamin.  This does not appear to be happening - any
clues on this?

I am seeing
``end of FAM server connection''
messages in the console from which I started X

my kernel includes INOTIFY support

[mark jersey:~]$ uname -a
Linux jersey 2.6.13.4 #1 Sat Oct 15 17:50:01 NZDT 2005 i686 athlon-4
i386 GNU/Linux

[mark jersey:~]$ zcat /proc/config.gz | grep INOTIFY
CONFIG_INOTIFY=y

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Regards,

Mark Carey