[ale] Annoying USB mount problem on Kubuntu 9.10 SOLVED

[Charles Shapiro]

Yeah, I thought about that. But that means I have to make a choice on
the keyboard every time it boots.  You can see why that might not be
much fun.

-- CHS


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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