[arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
Hi, all http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/; I answered yes to the switch to udisks2 and now the mount point only shows for a split second in Nautilus. The device still shows but now I've lost unmount access via sudo too, my scripts clean up on disconnect so

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 04.05.2012 11:46, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/; I just read this post, and it is what you expect from the ignorant guru: A rant. It is simply general FUD with no concrete examples or anything remotely substantial. Although

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/; Please don't take this guy seriously. If you read the post that he is basing his rant on, you'll see that he has completely misunderstood

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Pham Bao Trung
On Fri 04 May 2012 06:16:15 PM ICT, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 04.05.2012 11:46, schrieb Kevin Chadwick: http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/udisks2-another-loss-for-linux/; I just read this post, and it is what you expect from the ignorant guru: A rant. It is simply general FUD with no

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:19:27 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: Please don't take this guy seriously. Though he's working on something that seems to fix some of the... oversights shall we say of udisks.

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:43:03 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: I couldn't find a reference. Do you have a link? As far as I'm aware, the only real complaint against udisks2 is that they don't supply commandline tools with a stable API. However, the dbus api is stable, so it would be trivial for a

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:43:03 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: As far as I'm aware, the only real complaint against udisks2 is that they don't supply commandline tools with a stable API The docs are attrocious which doesn't help, even the online ones. They seem to be using polkit because it adds

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:43:03 +0200 Tom Gundersen wrote: I couldn't find a reference. Do you have a link? As far as I'm aware, the only real complaint against udisks2 is that they don't supply commandline tools with a

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 04 May 2012 14:59:05 +0300 Ionut Biru wrote: I'm a bit confused. Where did you answer yes ? I'm just asking because I did not replaced anything with udisks2. Maybe it asked some other questions completely unrelated (2 I think), it broke immediately after an update including this

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Cédric Girard
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.ukwrote: Maybe it asked some other questions completely unrelated (2 I think), it broke immediately after an update including this anyway. [2012-04-25 11:52] installed udisks2 (1.94.0-1) Could be this also, maybe I'll

Re: [arch-general] Switching back to udisk1

2012-05-04 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 4 May 2012 13:38:27 +0100 Kevin Chadwick wrote: udisks doesn't use mount and so I'm forced to look at the mess which is polkit and udisks After editing three files (two ineffectual), polkit is atleast unmounting, but before I could look at what that actually means in terms of what can