reassign 364337 pmount thanks, On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 04:28:55PM -0400, Mike Paul wrote: > I recently burned a copy of the Fedore Core 5 DVD, and was surprised to > find that gnome-volume-manager didn't automatically mount it like it > does for other discs I insert. The icon in the GNOME Disk Mounter > applet didn't even change to indicate there was a disc in the drive. > (Combined with the fact that "cdir" reports "no_disc" when the disc in > the drive is a DVD, I thought it was a bad burn and burned another copy, > which had the same problem.) > > It turns out that the FC5 DVD's volume label is "FC/5 i386" -- it > contains a frontslash character. I suspect what happened is that g-v-m > tried to create the mountpoint directory "/media/FC/5 i386", failed > because "/media/FC" didn't already exist, and gave up on the whole > process. > > If I mount the disc manually it works fine. If I create a directory > called "/media/FC" it still doesn't auto-mount, though. Its HAL UDI is > "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_FC/5_i386", so maybe that's > causing problems too.
It's up to pmount-hal to handle that correctly. Currently passes the label to directly to pmount, but it probably should replace / with _ for example.. Sjoerd -- A clash of doctrine is not a disaster -- it is an opportunity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
