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tor

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-02

Posts: 80

Gnome 2.8 and gnome-volume-manager

Has anybody got this to work? Could my installation be broken.

I can't get g-v-m working.

I run the 2.6.8.1 kernel
I have installed udev acording to the archlinux wiki. udev seems to be working fine. Devices gets created when i plug in diffrent usb devices.
I have installed the testversion of Gnome 2.8 and almost everything else is working fine.
I have installed dbus, hal and g-v-m
i added dbus and hal services to be started at boot

What else should i do? Do i have to do any modifications to /etc/fstab or anything like that?

When i plug something in nothing happens. Sometimes the device show up in hal-device-manager sometimes not. And sometimes partially. (Ie when connecting an USB-disk i get the disk listed but not the partitions.)

Perhaps there is a need for a Archlinux-HOWTO on this issue?

patrix

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Registered: 2004-08-27

Posts: 51

Re: Gnome 2.8 and gnome-volume-manager

in gnome 2.6 none of my CDs got mounted till I went in the desktop prefs for "CD and DVD" I think, and activated the "mount disks automatically when inserted". I haven't tried 2.8 yet.

Blaasvis

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Registered: 2003-01-17

Posts: 467

Re: Gnome 2.8 and gnome-volume-manager

try killing it and starting it in the console.
It will spew his troubles

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tor

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-02

Posts: 80

Re: Gnome 2.8 and gnome-volume-manager

An update on this issue.

I started gnome-volume-manager on the command line. (Strangely this one isn´t started upon login)

First thing i noted was that my fstab was wrong. It wanted mount points for my cd/dvd drives in the form /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd. Mine where set to /dev/cdroms/cdrom0 and /dev/cdroms/cdrom1.

When changing my fstab. CDs started working.

My USB devices is a whole other issue :-(

I have tested with two diffrent devices. One cheap usb disk and one usb memory stick from Sandisk (both usb2 devices)

Inserting either of them results in a

libhal.c 823 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on device with id

from g-v-m and after that hal stops responding (hald is still running though). I have to restart it to get it working again.

Dito output from hald run from the command line

hald_dbus.c:121 raise_no_such_property() : No property info.capabilities on device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_781_5150_10_-1_SNDK2DF5A43179800204

So either my devices aren't recognized or otherwise there is some form of bug in hal.

Anyone else having these problems with USB devices?

aCoder

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From: Medina, OH

Registered: 2004-03-07

Posts: 359

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Re: Gnome 2.8 and gnome-volume-manager

Are your USB disks in fstab?  I had to add mine to get them automagically mounted.

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tor

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2004-08-02

Posts: 80

Re: Gnome 2.8 and gnome-volume-manager

Are your USB disks in fstab?  I had to add mine to get them automagically mounted.

Yes i have them added. According to the devices that udev correctly creates. 

Does anybody know where i can find the PKGBULDs from testing? More specific, the ones for gnome and hal.

The version of HAL in arch is 0.2.97 which is a month old. 0.2.98 was "released" the 20th. And there seems to have happened a great deal.