[Mageia-dev] mkinitrd and Mageia2

[Frank Griffin]

On 01/27/2012 01:38 PM, Florian Hubold wrote:
> For reference, with a default setup KDE doesn't automatically mount 
> removable media like GNOME does, this is the case since quite some 
> time, IIRC it goes back to 4.0. 

As I said in my initial post about automounting, a week or so ago it was 
working, and whatever was mounting the disk looked like it was using hal 
to do it:

Jan 19 16:14:08 localhost halevt: halevt 0.1.6.2, 
http://www.environnement.ens.fr/perso/dumas/halevt.html
Jan 19 16:14:08 localhost halevt: No pid file used
Jan 19 16:14:08 localhost halevt: Running: halevt-mount -u 
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_label_CSI_NY_S6_D4 -o flush

Also, I've been burning ISOs to disk under KDE for months using brasero, 
and if you loaded a blank disk and did an "OpenWith..." (brasero) on the 
ISO file before KDE had recognized the blank disk, you got a brasero 
dialog telling you to mount a blank disk for it; as soon as the blank 
was detected and the KDE Device popup came up showing it, brasero 
immediately switched its dialog to ready-to-burn.  Now, it just sits 
there waiting.

All of this started sometime after Jan19/Jan20, and worked fine prior to 
that.

But I tend to think you're right about KDE, as I've had 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=287170 opened for awhile, and that 
would explain it.  Wine apps can't access unmounted disks, and my Wine 
apps that use DVDs haven't worked under KDE for a long time.

And then there's the issue that automount had been working in LXDE and 
stopped working at the same time.  So, it may be that KDE has not been 
automounting all along, but something else was whether KDE was active or 
not.

Whatever changed (and *something* did), the effect is that a lot of 
stuff that was working no longer does, and I wanted to raise the issue 
while whatever changed might be fresh enough in folks' minds to ring a bell.