gnome-mount woes

[David Zeuthen]

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...

> 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...

> 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.

     David