Bug 222325
Summary: | auto-mounting of, e.g. USB drive, dependent on WM running | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Steve Friedman <steve> |
Component: | gnome-volume-manager | Assignee: | David Zeuthen <davidz> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | rawhide | CC: | mclasen |
Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Reopened |
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-09-20 18:26:10 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Steve Friedman
2007-01-11 17:54:04 UTC
wont put that in udev. sry Then it doesn't belong in udev. But, if we agree that the *X window manager* shouldn't determine whether the USB stick is automatically mounted (e.g., perhaps it is a server that doesn't have X running), then *please* rather than closing the bug as WONTFIX please hand it off to the appropriate developer. I don't know the internals of your structure, so if udev isn't appropriate forward it to the group for which it is appropriate -- because it clearly shouldn't be dependent on which X window manager is running. this is not the window manager.. this is gnome-volume-manager handling the "automount" stuff and nautilus using gnome-mount and gnome-umount. KDE has its own helper applications to do stuff like this. I don't know if gnome-volume-manager works from text-mode.. Reassigning to gnome-volume-manager, which may give you a hint, what you can do in text mode. I discovered this bug initially because I use fvwm and thus don't utilize gnome-volume-manager. However, I would argue that these kinds of low-level operations belong in an agnostic system package, and not something specific to gnome, KDE, or what have you. This is by design. I would love to see the design document that explained why this was the desired behavior. But, I guess that since I am not going to code this correctly, I am stuck with this flaw. HAL is only a mechanism and as such don't make policy decisions by itself. The policy decision to mount something needs to originate from the user session so it's a) per-user; b) easily configurable without requiring root password to edit system-wide files Here's a 50,000 feet presentation detailing how it works. http://people.freedesktop.org/~david/talks/dynamic-device-handling-OLS-2006.pdf Good luck. |