KDE Volume Manager not receiving mount points from HAL - it can't cope!

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:46:58AM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 	Dumping 39 device(s) from the Global Device List:
> 	-------------------------------------------------
> 	udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_8_16'
> 	  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_8_16'  (string)
> 	  storage.hotpluggable = true  (bool)
> 	  storage.removable = false  (bool)
> 	  info.product = 'USB-FDU'  (string)
> 	  info.vendor = 'Y-E DATA'  (string)
> 	  storage.drive_type = 'floppy'  (string)
> 	  block.storage_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/block_8_16'  (string)
> 	  storage.physical_device = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_usb_device_57b_0_501_-1_noserial_0'  (string)
> 	  storage.vendor = 'Y-E DATA'  (string)
> 	  storage.model = 'USB-FDU'  (string)
> 	  storage.automount_enabled_hint = true  (bool)
> 	  storage.no_partitions_hint = true  (bool)
> 	  storage.media_check_enabled = true  (bool)
> 	  storage.bus = 'usb'  (string)
> 	  block.minor = 16  (0x10)  (int)
> 	  block.major = 8  (0x8)  (int)
> 	  info.capabilities = 'block storage'  (string)
> 	  info.category = 'storage'  (string)
> 	  block.device = '/dev/sdb'  (string)
> 	  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_1_0_0_0'  (string)
> 	  block.is_volume = false  (bool)
> 	  block.have_scanned = false  (bool)
> 	  block.no_partitions = true  (bool)
> 	  linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sdb'  (string)
> 	  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sdb'  (string)
> 	  info.bus = 'block'  (string)
> 
> > This hal device object is a child of the hal
> > device object representing the drive itself. It works just like when
> > using partitioned media, e.g. /dev/sdb and /dev/sdb1 on a memory card.
> > One of the points of hal is to abstract the difference between
> > partitioned and non-partitioned media; e.g. provide an abstraction with
> > drives and volumes instead.
> > 
> > So, when you mount the volume using mount(1), e.g. 'mount /dev/sda' from
> > the commandline or from a program like KVM (since an entry
> > relating /dev/sda and /media/floppy1 is already in /etc/fstab file this
> > is possible), 

 okay, i think i might have tracked down what the problem is.

 notice in the above that :
> 	  storage.removable = false  (bool)

 ah... it's a usb floppy.              "/proc/scsi/usb-storage/%d"
 from block_class.c says it's one of those
 "Protocol: Uniform Floppy Interface (UFI)" things.

 so has_removable_media will get set to TRUE.

 ... only to have it set to FALSE because there's no entry
 /sys/block/sdb/removable in order to be read.

 ah... um... what gives?

 l.



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