USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Jussi Nurminen
Hi, I'm having trouble with automounting of removable devices, when multiple users are logged in via GDM. This is with Debian Lenny. If I do tail -f /var/syslog, and then attach an USB stick, I get a message like this: Nov 25 17:56:02 myws hald: mounted /dev/sde1 on behalf of uid 1000 which is

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, Jussi Nurminen wrote: Now, I thought consolekit was supposed to resolve this by letting hal know about the active session, but apparently it still does not work. Is everybody else having the same problem? It's a pain for our lab with multiple-user workstations. we

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:09:49PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, Jussi Nurminen wrote: Now, I thought consolekit was supposed to resolve this by letting hal know about the active session, but apparently it still does not work. Is everybody else having the same

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Just don't do the auto mount thing.  Do it the old fashioned way with an entry in fstab for the device in question and the 'user' option.  Then you plug in the stick, open a term, tail dmesg to see what device it is, then mount it's mount point.

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread H.S.
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Just don't do the auto mount thing. Do it the old fashioned way with an entry in fstab for the device in question and the 'user' option. Then you plug in the stick, open a term, tail dmesg to see what device it is, then

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, H.S. wrote: I find this an interesting situation. From your earlier post I gather that no solution has been found despite trying very hard. I was wondering if some other user-friendly Linux distro has solved this problem in any way (Fedora, Ubuntu, Mepic, Mint, Suse

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread H.S.
Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, H.S. wrote: I find this an interesting situation. From your earlier post I gather that no solution has been found despite trying very hard. I was wondering if some other user-friendly Linux distro has solved this problem in any way (Fedora,

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Jussi Nurminen
H.S. wrote: Which version of Ubuntu? IIRC, Ubuntu is based on Debian Unstable. If you are not already running Unstable, perhaps newer packages, when they arrive in your Debian machine, will solve this problem. I'm running Debian unstable on my home machine. I just verified that it

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:23:38PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Just don't do the auto mount thing. ?Do it the old fashioned way with an entry in fstab for the device in question and the 'user' option. ?Then you plug in the stick, open a

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:23:38PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Just don't do the auto mount thing. ?Do it the old fashioned way with an entry in fstab for the device in question and the 'user' option. ?Then you plug in

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 18:14:07 +0200, Jussi Nurminen wrote: Hi, I'm having trouble with automounting of removable devices, when multiple users are logged in via GDM. This is with Debian Lenny. If I do tail -f /var/syslog, and then attach an USB stick, I get a message like this: Nov 25

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:26:41 -0500 Douglas A. Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 02:23:38PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Just don't do the auto mount thing. ?Do it the old fashioned way with an entry in fstab for the

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, Celejar wrote: Probably even easier with swatch, recently mentioned on the list: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4776 the article says it isn't included in Debian, but an aptitude install swatch worked just fine.. I'll take a look, thanks! -- Paul Cartwright

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 17:28:11 -0500 Paul Cartwright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue November 25 2008, Celejar wrote: Probably even easier with swatch, recently mentioned on the list: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4776 the article says it isn't included in Debian, but an aptitude

Re: USB mount with multiple users broken (hal and consolekit)

2008-11-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue November 25 2008, Celejar wrote: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4776 the article says it isn't included in Debian, but an aptitude install swatch worked just fine.. The article's from 2001. ahhh, I didn't notice! at least it installed ok! -- Paul Cartwright Registered