Davyd McColl [2009-11-06 21:24 +0200]: > 1) Removable media inconsistently not show up in the Places menu when > inserted (flash drives, external hard-drives, dvd-roms). The problem has > "gone away" on two occasions, but I've been unable to find a proper pattern.
Try have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/463347 -- there is currently an udev in proposed which should fix a lot of those symptoms. If it still happens, please do "ubuntu-bug" and file a new bug against the "storage device" symptom. > 2) I have two fixed drives in my system for That Other OS. I used to just be > able to mount them by clicking their respective icons in the Places menu and > they would be mounted via ntfs-3g (FUSE). Now, one of them (the main drive > of the OS) mounts when I click its icon; the other requires me to authorise > myself with a natty dialog and the reason being related to: > org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.filesystem-mount-system-internal Yes, that's a known usability problem right now. Feel free to report a bug against devicekit-disks. > I also notice, from my clean 9.10 vbox vm, that the old policykit > is not installed by default any more. It was superseded (for GNOME) by policykit-1, as you said. > I've uninstalled it from my main machine here, but it also took a > few apps (k3b and some other K apps) with it -- which I'm not all > that pleased about. I don't use k3b often, but it's nice to know > that I have it if I want all the advanced features it offers. Well, then don't uninstall it -- "you asked for it, you got it". :-) There's nothing wrong with having both installed. > Also, I'd like to know if policykit and policykit-1 can interfere > with each other? Was removing the older package necessary? No, it's not. If so, we'd have built that into the packaging (like the two packages declaring a conflict to each other). So you should be able to safely install k3b again. Thanks, Martin -- Martin Pitt | http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com) | Debian Developer (www.debian.org) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
