[ale] Annoying USB mount problem on Kubuntu 9.10 SOLVED

[Jim Kinney]

hack the init to add a runlevel choice with a keystroke or do it with a grub
line

On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hmm. That's really irritating.  Sometimes I just want to bring my
> machine up quickly to, like, rip a CD or copy something to an SD card.
> I don't want to wait around for the full ceremonial X Windows
> initialization for stuff like that.
>
> -- CHS
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> > dolphin must be the connector to DBUS for KDE.
> >
> > There is a growing dependency on <foo>DM stuff with the current
> > environments. Lots of _stuff_ gets started or is accessible only through
> > them. NetworkManager is flaky without GDM starting things. So there must
> be
> > a pile of env stuff causing pain.
> >
> > Next-gen SELinux has support for X environment. By starting with <foo>DM,
> > SELinux will have a firmer grasp on the startup process. I wonder if this
> is
> > a related artifact...
> >
> > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Charles Shapiro <
> hooterpincher at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> So I run my Kubuntu 9.10 box kinda weird -- specifically, I disable
> >> the display manager and start X when I need it with the "startx"
> >> script.
> >> Since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, I've noticed that the device manager
> >> in the toolbar stops working after a few minutes of X uptime. The
> >> symptoms are that the toolbar freezes for a while, but the device
> >> never mounts. I can still easily mount USB mass storage devices from
> >> the command line ("mount -t vfat /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sd"), so the trouble
> >> was clearly in KDE.  Further investigation showed that the trouble was
> >> related to Dolphin -- when I run dolphin from the command line I get a
> >> looong delay, followed by random kvetching about connecting to some
> >> X-related gizmo:
> >>
> >> <unknown program name>(2557)/: Communication problem with  "dolphin" ,
> >> it probably crashed.
> >> Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message
> >> did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" "
> >>
> >> After this error, dolphin would eventually start.
> >>
> >> So the SOLUTION, to make a long story short, is to make sure that a
> >> dolphin session is always running in KDE. As long as I have a session
> >> up somewhere, everything seems to be copacetic.
> >>
> >> I haven't seen this on google or anywhere else.
> >>
> >> -- CHS
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