[ale] Annoying USB mount problem on Kubuntu 9.10 SOLVED

[Jim Kinney]

true. So hack startx to be a startKDM command :-) This will also require the
logout to be aliased to a stopKDM as well.

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:53 PM, Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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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