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#1 2005-02-09 09:52:06

bauerber
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Registered: 2004-12-20
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gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

Hi there,

I configured gnome-volume-manager to automatically mount drives (esp. usbsticks and so on) and it is working quite smoothly.
But one side effect is bothering me a little:
As suggested in a gnome-volume-manager HowTo, the volume manager is loaded on startx in the following form

<.xinitrc>
exec startxfce4 & exec gnome-volume-manager
</.xinitrc>

as soon as I try to quit my Xfce session the session hangs and will not terminate properly, i.e. logfoff-screen appears but session is not ended.
I waited for quite a while (about an hour  :shock: )...
As I didn't change too much over the last few days, I quickly found out that the gnome-volume-manager is the culprit. As soon as the 'exec gnome-volume-manager' part is removed, Xfce will shut down normally.

Has anyone else encountered this side effect? Is there a solution?

Greez and Thx

Bernhard

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#2 2005-02-09 10:32:49

Pajaro
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Registered: 2004-04-21
Posts: 884

Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

I was experiencing with hal and automonting. Finally I found ivman:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?p=65955

You can configure it to do everything gnome-volume-manager does, and much more.

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#3 2005-02-09 10:38:24

bauerber
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Registered: 2004-12-20
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Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

aah!

So the Problem is hal and not the gnome-volume-manager...

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#4 2005-02-09 11:03:37

JGC
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Registered: 2003-12-03
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Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

I wouldn't start gnome-volume-manager that way, I would configure xfce4 to add gnome-volume-manager to the session when it starts up. Putting it in your .xinitrc makes xfce4 unaware of gnome-volume-manager.

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#5 2005-02-09 12:45:57

bauerber
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Registered: 2004-12-20
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Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

JGC wrote:

I wouldn't start gnome-volume-manager that way, I would configure xfce4 to add gnome-volume-manager to the session when it starts up. Putting it in your .xinitrc makes xfce4 unaware of gnome-volume-manager.

Sounds logical.
It was the way described in the HOwTo, though. That's why I started the volume-manager like this. I would have preferred a more general approach, starting the gnome-volume-manager someplace more general (and not separately for each user)

I guess the correct place would be somewhere in ~/.config/xfce4??
I would have thought maybe the xinitrc that resides there... (Maybe along with xftaskbar4...)
Or is there a more suitable file??

Greez

bernhard

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#6 2005-02-09 15:46:43

Pajaro
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Registered: 2004-04-21
Posts: 884

Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

So the Problem is hal and not the gnome-volume-manager...

No, the problem is not hal: Both gnome-volume-manager and ivman manage automonting communicating with hal. Hal has nothing to do with your issue.

I just recomend you to use ivman instead of gnome-volume-manager for these main reasons:
- ivman runs daemonized. Your devices will allways automount. You don't need to be in a desktop environment.
- ivman is capable of anything, gnome-volume-manager just does what it is programmed for.

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#7 2005-02-09 17:16:16

bauerber
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Registered: 2004-12-20
Posts: 40

Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

Pajaro wrote:

- ivman runs daemonized. Your devices will allways automount. You don't need to be in a desktop environment.

That sounds quite good! But there's no pacman-package yet, is there?

Greez

Bernhard

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#8 2005-02-09 23:01:13

Pajaro
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Registered: 2004-04-21
Posts: 884

Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

in the post i linked in the first post you can find the PKGBUILD and the rc.d file

just create a folder, create the the two files (copy pasting) and d then run "makepkg -ci" in the console in the same folder where you have put the two files.

On the other hnd, I think there won't pass many since the package appears in the repos, as I've already done the PKGBUILD.

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#9 2005-02-10 14:30:06

bauerber
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Posts: 40

Re: gnome-volume-manager freezes xfce4 on logout

I suppose I'll switch whenever ivman is available for pacman.
After working in front of a computer all day, I just cannot be bothered to compile (and later an maintain) packages for myself...
Meanwhile I worked around the problem by putting a small shell script into my Autostart folder...

Thx!

Bernhard

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