gnome-mount woes

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 12:03 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 11:29 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > I've just inserted a 2G usb pendrive.
> > 
> > gnome-mount mounted it as root access only due (I think) to it being
> > marked as a removable hard-drive.
> 
> Probably this bug with the gconf schemas not being installed correctly
> 
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=234716
> 
> Please check with gconf-editor. Any clue what's wrong? It only happens
> for some users...

Ahh yes, no schema installed. I'll try to work out what this has
happened.

> > I then added the mountpoint as /media/disk (followed the example), and
> > added user into the mount options, unmounted and removed the disk.
> > 
> > Now when I plug in the disk it tells me I can't have newlines or / chars
> > in the mount path. I guess I should have put "disk" rather
> > than /media/disk, but gnome-mount didn't warn me about the slashes when
> > I entered the path, nor can I change the settings now as the drive won't
> > mount.
> 
> The UI is very much crap (I can say that because I wrote it); patches
> for a better UI very welcome; it should probably be a stand-alone app
> and the Nautilus extension will just provide a button to start this...

Yes, because if you can't mount the volume you can't change the
options.. :-)

> > Short question: where does gnome-mount store the per-device settings so
> > I can remove the slashes?
> 
> gconf; see the schema file.
> 
> > This is with hal from git, gnome-mount from git.
> 
> gnome-mount is in GNOME SVN, not git.

Sure, thanks. I just run auto_build_rpm.sh and it DTRT.

Richard.