Automounting in userspace with ivman

adrien1977 · n00b Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 38 Location: Chicago (US)

Ok what I have realized is that when I open Konqueror and that I type media:/ in the address bar I can see all the mounted drives.
So when I insert my usb key i see the icon apear, then right click unmount safely, then I remove the usb key and the icon disapear.
Is it possible to do the same thing but on the desktop??
thanks

guitarman · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 4:44 am Post subject:

Same here, if I put in a cdrom the icon will appear in media:/ and will disapear when I take out the disc so I also want the same to happen on my desktop. I tried going to the desktop properties and selecting the device icons but they only show up if i click on the cdrom in media:/ .

sunder · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2004 Posts: 21 Location: Victoria, BC

RedIpS · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2005 Posts: 17

Hello
im n00b .....

Why when i run ivm nothink work ??

wizardofos · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 201

What exactly doesn't work? What do you expect ivman to do?

I've one problem to: I have this in mv .ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml:

hunter3 · n00b Joined: 11 Jun 2004 Posts: 6 Location: germany

pif · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2004 Posts: 33

Hi!

I have just upgraded ivman, hal and dbus from the gentopia overlay, but now nothing gets automounted anymore( I have pmount installed). The current versions are: ivman - 0.6.4, hal - 0.5.2 and dbus - 0.34.

This is what ivman shows when I start my external USB harddrive:

mkrisch · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 59

before i tried going down the gamin/hal/dbus/ivman/pmount path, nautilus had a nice feature where i would plug in a usb key, and a mount point icon would appear in the computer view of nautilus, and when mounted, as well as my desktop.

can anyone tell me how to get that back?

here's what i'm running:

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

I'm using Kde 3.4 , standard fstab (never installed supermount).
I have a strange bug in ivman:
If I start it after boot, with fork=false and debug=true, it works. With error:

federico · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 9:32 am Post subject:

federico · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

I am usind ivman, dbus and hal from portage.
I see that some users has newer version but I am not able to find new ebuild, and versions from cvs from the first post doesn't work.. What can i do ?
Anyway, it seems to work, but i want to get the best i can have

EDIT:
As I can see from the ivman homepage there are a lot of new features, an no one of the crucial packet is in portage (like hal, dbus and ivman new versions)

mkrisch · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2004 Posts: 59

Zanton · Apprentice Joined: 16 Jan 2005 Posts: 277

hi all,
I'm in trouble with ivman

I installed dbus, hal and ivman and made them start at the boot. I let the default configs.
Anyway, nothing works at all ^^ When I insert a dvd in my dvd recorder, it doesn't mount it automatically, but I can mount and umount it manually. If I plug in my usb stick, nothing happens. And I can't mount it manually, I got an error message saying /dev/sda does not exist.

Besides I want to run a user instance of ivman (as said in their wiki) but I get this error :
$ ivman
Ikke's Volume Manager, http://ivman.sf.net
15149: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "path != NULL" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1723.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-BUS library.
libhal.c 1856 : Couldn't allocate D-BUS message

And I don't have this error as root.

I'm running fvwm and rox by the way.
Can someone help me ?
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Havin_it · Posted: Sun Aug 14, 2005 1:07 pm Post subject:

Apologies if this was already addressed in this rather long thread, but:

I built kde3.4 without the 'hal' USE-flag, and now that I've more carefully read the KDE guide in the Handbook, I assumed this is why my CDs don't automount. In the KDE media:/ page I'm able to double-click and open them without mounting, but no automounting. However, when I run the command

Tanisete · Guru Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 312

Hi to all!!

I'm trying to migrate to the new ivman 0.6.4, but i'm experiencing a few problems. When i plug in a usbstick, some mountpoints are mounted without wirte or read permissions to my normal users... But this does not happen with cd o dvds. Here is ivman output:

dalek · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:47 am Post subject:

OK, houston we have a problem. I have been using supermount, stop *itchin, it was working fine for me OK.

I noticed that udev updated the other night and I can no longer access my CDs. :cry:

I guess it is time to switch to something besides supermount. I've been dreading this. I'm always afraid I will crash my rig or something when I do this.

Since the original post is sort of old, what are the steps to install it now? I notice that ivman is in portage so that is a plus. I don't like that cvs thing either, just thought I would throw that in the pot too. I tried it, no likey. Long story.

Basically, maybe Redeeman can give us a update, either to the original post at the beginning which would be best or here.

Any help or advice would be appreciated.

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dalek · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

OK, I jumped in with both feet. I just emerged ivman and let it sort it out. Then I started the services it needed and it was acting a little strange at first but I think it got it sorted out after running a little bit. It wouldn't eject when I hit the button on the drive at first but after a bit it started to working fine. I also found out you have to hit that refresh button with Konqueror. It seems to cache it or something. Works fine with a console though.

I also had to update my kernel, so said the error from hal I think. If you run a not so recent 2.6 kernel, I hope you remember the kernel compile commands. :roll:

This is the part I like, it ran as a user just fine. I can see it in Konqueror or console as dale with no problem. Yea, my name is really Dale. :lol:

Anyway, so far so good. At least with ivman anyway. Now I have to go figure out what happened to my sound. It sort of don't work anymore. I'm not sure what happened to that. Drivers are in the kernel though.

Later

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wizardofos · Apprentice Joined: 20 Jul 2004 Posts: 201

Hi

I use ivman for a couple of weeks now and discovered a problem: When I attach my 250g usbdisk with a 50g vfat and a 200g xfs partition on it, ivman doesn't mount it.

Aristona · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 6

Hi,

I would like to plug my sd card into my reader and dl the photos into digikam as easy as that. Now I had this working using autofs, but it stopped working when it somehow could not unmount the sd card anymore, putting it onto a higher sd?1 device everytime i reinserted it. (in Digikam you set a certain mount point for the download. so if that changes all the time.... )

Then I tried to do this whole hal dbus ivman thing on a fresh gentoo install and got it to work to some extent....

"STABLE" WAY:
First I went the "stable" way with the older hal dbus and IVMAN that you get when you don't unmask anything. and set hal as useflag
Sure enough the devices I plugged in showed up through media:/ in de konqueror... Klicking on them however brought up a window indicating that the device cold not be found in /etc/fstab /etc/mtab... No mounting.. :-(

(This worked before in my old gentoo setup...

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Furthermore the whole /etc directory gets filled up with files fstab.??? of zero bytes size.

"UNMASKED " WAY:
The Pmount option then seemed apealing.. Unmasked it ... had to unmask newer versions of hal dbus and ivman + deps as dependency .. did that.. I got it all installed.. and sure enough stuff got mounted (as root) in /media. However media:/ in kde does not work anymore due to the new hal dbus and ivman stuff. Reemerging kde against this new stuf will not work as it explicitly depends on older versions... with which pmount in turn won't work... A circular no go.

Furthermore, linux get really mixed up when it somehow soemtimes can't unmount certain drives. Next time you get a completely different mount point. I want it to be the same so that apps that depend on a non-changing mount point always work.

The guides found in the wiki etc do not seem to apply anymore.... is there any guide that would lead me to a correctly working automount system like it does in SuSE Linux? (Sure it works there, I tried myself!)

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genstef · Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2005 7:06 am Post subject:

there is a new masked kdebase-kioslaves ebuild which containss some patches to support the new dbus/hal api

Erythro73 · Posted: Tue Oct 11, 2005 3:04 am Post subject:

Do somebody know how to enable audiocd mounting with IVMAN? I can mount every data CD I want on /media/cdrom, but I can't mount an audio cd... Do I miss something?

Also, users can't go in /media/cdrom, even though I put the users argument in fstab, and tried to modify the media permissions...

With Fork = no and debug = yes...

Vampire lestat # ivman
Ikke's Volume Manager, http://ivman.sf.net
6699: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "path != NULL" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1723.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-BUS library.
libhal.c 1856 : Couldn't allocate D-BUS message
IvmConfigActions.c:42 (ivm_device_is_mountable) (null) can't be mounted because it is not a block device

Any thought???

Thank you!

Aristona · n00b Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 6

I gat that working! it appeared to be a non-conformistic fsstab I was using and ivamn did not like that (missing 0 0 after each mount line)

Any way, With the new kde 343 it seemed ok to upgrade the whole hal dbus pmount system. It works with the new KDE but now somewho does not detect that I remove a card from the cardreader. I need to disconnect the whole cardreader for it to unmount the drives. The cardreader is built in, so that is rahter cumbersome. mounting is actually fine btw.

Anyone on how to detect the rremoval of cards again without removing the whole cardreader?

roderick · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 9:32 pm Post subject:

Not sure if my problems are hal, dbus, ivman or kde related but I'm hoping someone can help with each. I'll outline them blow and followup with my settings.

When I insert a usb stick, it correctly shows the icon on the desktop, and mounts under /media as follows:

firephoto · Posted: Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:10 pm Post subject:

This is what I did for the first problem you describe. I posted in another thread.

roderick · Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 11:55 am Post subject: