Re: gnome-volume-manager doubt

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

If you're not using X and GNOME, you won't be able to use g-v-m, as g- 
v-m is a session service (I don't know why either). You can still use  
pmount, though, I think.

On 19 Dec 2007, at 14:46, Leandro Marco wrote:

> Hi.
>
> First of all, i would like to say that I don't know if this is the
> right place for this question. As I couldn't find a more specific
> list, I am sending this question here. I am wondering if you could
> help or point someone that can.
>
> I work for a company, and here we use a diskless environment (network
> boot). People who work here have different levels of computational
> knowledge. Some people don't use X, and others are people who use
> windows at their home computers.
>
> We use Debian 4.0, and I installed gnome-volume-manager in order to
> use pen drives automount. Gnome-volume-manager doesn't require that we
> put the mountpoints entries in etc/fstab; But, if I don't put the
> entries in fstab the user that don't use X, won't  be able to mount
> pendrives without root privilegies. If I put the entries in fstab, gvm
> mount the pendrive, but I can't unmount them by clicking on the
> unmount option in the context menu. That occurs because i have
> something like this on fstab:
>
> /dev/sda1       /mnt/pensda1 auto        noauto,users,umask=000      
> 0       0
>
> When I insert the pendrive, /dev/sda1 is registred on mtab. When I try
> to unmount by clicking on the unmount option I get this error:
>
> "umount: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 is not mounted
> (according to mtab)"
>
> I downloaded and read the gvm source and I could fix the problem by
> changing the umount function so that it obtains, in case of failure,
> (via hal calls) the mountpoint and them i use this to umount.
>
> But, I would like to know if there is another way to fix this, and if
> there isn't, if this would be accepted as a patch (is there a problem
> with thsi solution?).
>
> Thanks and sorry about the English errors :-)
>
> --
> Leandro
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