On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 14:02, Alex Samad<a...@samad.com.au> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 04:57:44PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> On Fri, 17 Jul 2009 06:39:16 +1000 >> Alex Samad <a...@samad.com.au> wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 03:22:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> >> ... >> >> > > > > This is just wrong; HAL *doesn't automount anything* on its own. It >> > > > > merely passes information to a *volume manager*, which can be >> > > > > configured >> > > > > to do whatever you want. I run HAL, and I've never had devices >> > > > > automounted. When I tried once more, before firing off this message, >> > > > > lo >> > > > > and behold my USB key did indeed automount, but I investigated and >> > > > > realized that it was some component of xfce that was doing it. When >> > > > > I >> > > > > unchecked the box "Settings / Removable Drives and Media / Storage / >> > > > > Mount removable drives when hot-plugged", the old behavior returned. >> > >> > isn't this because it writes out HAL efi files ? >> > /etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi >> >> Not sure what you mean; I currently have xfce's automounting enabled, >> and that file you mention is virtually empty (it contains a couple of >> commented out examples, and not much else. > I also have the xfce4 automount options off and it looks to me like it > has set them in this file > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- SGML -*- --> > > <!-- > Some examples how to use hal fdi files for system preferences > You can either uncomment the examples here or put them in a seperate > .fdi > file. > --> > <deviceinfo version="0.2"> > <!-- > The following shows how to hint gnome-volume-manager and other > programs > that honor the storage.automount_enabled_hint to not mount > non-removable > media. > --> > <!-- > <device> > <match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false"> > <match key="storage.removable" bool="false"> > <merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" > type="bool">false</merge> > </match> > </match> > </device> > --> > </deviceinfo> > > > What I was trying to suggest is that you were using hal even though you > thought you were not.
Setting a volume manager/automounter not to automount may change that file, but hal still does not do the mounting. I run Awesome WM, and even with that value set to true, it does not automount - because there is no volume manager. And a volume manager could ignore that hint from hal if it coded that way. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org