On Thursday 20 January 2005 15:00, Dennis Myers wrote:
> On Thursday 20 January 2005 07:25 am, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 January 2005 12:07, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 20 Jan 2005 11:01, Kaj Haulrich wrote:
> > > > At least you're not alone. Some time ago there was a
> > > > thread about "the ghost in the machine". It turned out the
> > > > culprit was supermount. This devil have plagued us for
> > > > years now. In 10.1 is worse than ever, if I may have a
> > > > say. To me it seems that this ghost has a will of its own,
> > > > randomly changing /etc/fstab. For example my fstab changes
> > > > in unpredictable ways whenever I insert a floppy, an USB
> > > > device like a mp3 player, a scanner or a camera. More often
> > > > than not I have to edit fstab by hand in order to get
> > > > things right again, but the ghost returns after a short
> > > > while.
> > > >
> > > > I guess this is the penalty we have to pay for using an
> > > > otherwise fine distro.
> > >
> > > It's funny how supermount drives some people mad, yet I've
> > > never had a problem, with any version of Mdk that I've used.
> > > I do admit, though, that I prefer automount for removable
> > > devices.
> >
> > Anne, I envy you. Could you please tell me how ? -- Eventually
> > post your fstab ?
> >
> > On my system it looks like supermount, devfs, autofs, usbfs and
> > udev are in a never ending dogfight. Depending on who's the
> > top dog at any given moment, my system reacts accordingly. In
> > a henhouse at least you know who's in charge...
> >
> > Kaj Haulrich.
>
> Kaj, I thought that I read somewhere that devfs and udev should
> not be running at the same time. One should place devfs=no or off
> (something of the sort) if it is showing as one of the services.
> Somebody jump in here if you know about this device conflict.
You're quite right, Dennis. I'm aware of this, but have tried all
thinkable permutations of those : for example having devfs but not
udev, or hotplug but not supermount. At the moment I don't even
mention devfs in /etc/lilo.conf so I guess it isn't running - at
least it doesn't show up in "services".
At least I now can win the fight every time I mount something, but
it is cumbersome. I'm longing back to the good, old days when
mounting was manual. Nice feeling, to be in charge....
And to quote Tom Brinkman (from a thread about k3b) : "every
programmer who allows his application to change important system
files should be taken out and shot". - I agree completely.
Kaj Haulrich.
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