gnome-mount woes
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Apr 11 10:07:37 PDT 2007
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.
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