Hi all, I have been using gnome-volume-manager to automount USB/CD/.. media but that no longer works for me. I am *not* running GNOME, but some GNOME related daemons and it seems like I have been bitten by the "solutions" for bug #507630 [1] and #507630 [2].
The situation with g-v-m and nautilus as packaged by debian is:
nautilus (2.26.2-3)
* handles automounting if not started with "--no-default-window" *and*
"--no-desktop"
* breaks: gnome-volume-manager (< 2.24) [...]
gnome-volume-manager (2.24.1-3)
* compiled with "--disable-automount"
* conflicts: nautilus (< 2.24) [...]
I can understand the decisions taken by the maintainers to handle the decision
taken by the GNOME developers to implement automouting in nautilus and thereby
obsoleting this functionality within g-v-m, but ...
The problem is that nautilus is *not* a replacement for g-v-m *as of now*
because it is not possible to run nautilus in daemon mode. This functionality
*might* be introduced in a future release ([3]) but is not available right
now.
I am a bit unsure how to handle this situation and see the following
alternatives:
1. Maintain my own gnome-volume-manager and nautilus package
This would enable me to use g-v-m as i have before.
2. Accept that automounting will not work
3. Switch to an alternative
I don't see 1. and 2. as valid alternatives which leaves me with 3. and I
would like to ask for suggestions.
The alternative should be able to:
1. Automatically mount inserted USB drives as /media/<volume-label>
2. Support encrypted drives (dm-crypt)
3. Allow clean unmounting
4. Work for users in plugdev
Does anybody have good suggestions?
with kind regards
Wolodja
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[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507736
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=507630
[3] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2009-April/msg00032.html
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