severity 544148 normal
kthxbye
Version: 1.6.4-3
Package: gvfs or gvfs-backends
Upon upgrading to squeeze, I got bitten by this bug: I am used to downloading my
photos using gphoto2 on the command line. This is a perfectly legitimate and in
my case optimal workflow. I won't change it: I own the computer, not the other
way around.
The automatic starting of gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor breaks my workflow: I need
to manually unmount the camera before I can do anything (the fact that I was
also bitten by bug #546398 makes it even worse).
So this is a real bug, not just a wishlist. I would even have made it important,
because wantonly breaking minority use cases is not the linux way.
Thankfully, there is a workaround, thanks to Michael Biebl for proposing it in
bug #544483:
> As dbus follows the xdg spec, you might wanna try to copy the service file to
> /usr/local/share/dbus-1/system-services/ and set
> Exec=/bin/false
> This is an ugly hack though, so beware.
This solves the problem for me, and should be useful to the other reporters.
Note that you can *not* put the dummy service file in
$HOME/.local/share/dbus-1/system-services/ to disable the process per-user, as
that is only searched *after* the system dirs.
To solve this bug, at the very least, the workaround should be documented in
README.Debian. A cleaner solution would be to allow disabling some of the gvfs
backends through a gconf key for example.
Cheers,
Baptiste
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