Duncan (et al), I _finally_ found a solution (pretty much) to this problem! Some inquiries on one of the gentoo forums gave me some clues for further research and I turned up the following on an openSUSE forum:
http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Mounting_to_Static_Mount_Points It works fine for gnome in Gentoo, and I've seen some comments indicating that it's also helpful in KDE. On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 22:26 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Lindsay Haisley <[email protected]> posted > [email protected], excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Aug > 2008 17:10:27 -0500: > > > This is a Royal PITA! We need to have, preferably as an easy to > > configure option, a consistent, named, filesystem location on which a > > particular device will mount, identified by the media type ("cdrom") or > > some other predictable name. I have a photo cataloging program I wrote > > which expects to find all photo CDs, which have different names > > reflecting dates and sequence, mounted at a location which can be > > specified in its config file. There are all kinds of applications which > > expect this! > > It's the automount stuff that's breaking. If I just tell the hal/kde > popup to ignore the new media, and mount it manually, it works as > expected (mount still uses fstab, thank goodness). If I let hal mount > it, it does so but then I have to figure out where. So just not using > hal works in general; it was just the k3b thing that triggered a problem > here, because in that specific instance, right after a burn when it tries > to verify, apparently hal interferes, and there isn't a lot I can do to > avoid it, except doing the verify manually. > > That's why I've not experienced serious problems elsewhere, however. I > tend to be very suspicious of automounting, etc, and in general don't use > it, preferring to issue the mount command directly, so I haven't had a > problem in general, only in that corner-case. -- Lindsay Haisley | "We are all broken | PGP public key FMP Computer Services | toasters, but we | available at 512-259-1190 | still manage to make |<http://pubkeys.fmp.com> http://www.fmp.com | toast" | | (Cheryl Dehut) |
