Hi guys,
Haven't posted for a while, just reinstalled Slackware 12 on my macbook pro after using fedora 8 for a while. It's still great.
Anyway, I have a pretty standard fstab. One line for /, one for my fedora partition, one for the dvd drive, etc. Nothing concerning removable storage.
I wanted to get automounting of usb disks working in kde, googled and discovered that a package called vsupdfstab was required in order to prevent this message:
A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient, see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")
I installed the package and it worked. When I plugged in a usb disk, it would add an entry to fstab and I could mount it in kde as a user. However, my root partition which is on a Logical Volume ended up being deleted a few times, leaving me with an unbootable system that complained about e2fsck being required. Not a very helpful error message, and it was some time before I realised what had happened.
So, I checked the file /etc/vsupdfstab.udev , the comments for which are predominantly russian. But there was one section that stuck out:
remove_from_fstab()
{
......
}
So I removed this, problem solved and the automount functionality kept working. I then found that the entries it added were sometimes faulty, invoking dodgy charsets and codepages for fat filesystems that prevented mounting. So I found a similar section:
add_to_fstab()
....
which I removed, problem solved again. My question is, with these sections removed, what is this program actually doing, and is it really needed to mount disks as user in kde? Or is there some easier fix that everyone uses??
cheers!!
john
