El jue, 16-03-2006 a las 23:00 +0100, Sjoerd Simons escribió:
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:26:09PM -0300, Javier Kohen wrote:
> > Package: gnome-volume-manager
> > Version: 1.4.0-4
> > Severity: normal
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> > G-v-m seems to get confused when mounting disks with many partitions. I have
> > an external USB hard drive with two partitions, which g-v-m tries to mount 
> > as
> > soon as the disk is plugged in. Now, several things can happen: both
> > partitions are mounted under their respective mount points (usbdisk and
> > usbdisk-1 in /media), only one gets mounted, or both get mounted but the
> > mount points are reversed.
> > 
> > This is a regression, as older versions didn't exhibit this buggy behavior;
> > the partitions were always mounted at the same mount points. I think this
> > started with the hal something/d-bus 0.60/GNOME 2.12 update.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply. Is the behaviour still the same with the latest
> version of gvm/hal/pmount ?

I saw this happen one or two days ago with GVM 1.4.0-4, HAL 0.5.7-1 and
pmount 0.9.9-1 (maybe -2 already).

> > Unfortunately some applications depend on absolute path names (i.e.
> > jukebox-like media players) and cannot work properly with changing mount
> > points.
> 
> In the world of hotpluggable volumes mount points locations aren't really
> reliable. But sure, it's nicer to have them persistent if possible.

I'm sure that at least being consistent when automatically generating
the name for a device's partitions would help a lot, for what it's
worth.

Thanks a lot,
-- 
Javier Kohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
ICQ: blashyrkh #2361802
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