[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#529746: automount breakage

[Hanspeter Kunz]

Hi Michael,

On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 12:08 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi Hanspeter,
> 
> could you explain, what exactly you understand with "mounting an usb stick fails".
> 
> Are you using GNOME/gnome-mount/gvfs/hal to mount or are you using the command
> line mount tool.

at the time, gnome(-volume-manager) was trying to mount the stick.

> If it's mounting via HAL, I guess it's simply a matter of the device being
> locked by DeviceKit-disks. And that's actually a problem that's to be expected.
> We'll have to port gvfs to DeviceKit-disks and disable the media handling in HAL.

to me it seemed (from the syslog, please see my original bug report)
that the kernel was "inserting" and "removing" the usb stick repeatedly
(in an endless loop). Consquently, each time gnome-volume-manager tried
to mount to stick, only to find that it has already gone away.

This "insert-remove-loop" I only experience with devicekit(-disks)
installed. 

I hope this helps to clarify the issue. I do not believe that it is a
problem in the tools that try to mount the stick, but that something
between the devicekit and the kernel goes wrong. But I might be wrong of
course.

If I can help by testing anything in more detail, please let me now.

Many thanks,
Hanspeter