On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 15:25 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:
> William L. Maltby wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:34 -0700, MHR wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:11 AM, William L. Maltby
> > > <CentOS4Bill@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 16:03 -0700, MHR wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Must be something like that - if I su and umount it, both icons go
> > > > > away. Then I 'mount -a' and only one comes back. But if I log out
> > > > > and log back in, they both come back. Must a new "feature" of gnome
> > > > > 2.20.0....
> > > >
> > > > If *I* know about it, it *can't* be a *new* feature! ;-)
> > > >
> > >
> > > Heh, heh - I meant "feature" as in the infamous Bill Gates interview
> > > with the German technology magazine, wherein he claimed that Windows
> > > has no bugs, only features that people do not understand. (You can't
> > > make this stuff up....)
> > >
> > > The most interesting part to me is that the disk in question is a
> > > fixed drive in the case. On my CentOS boxes and laptops, these NEVER
> > > show up on the desktop (why would they?), only the removable media.
> >
> > If it is truly a fixed drive, then I would suggest a look at the logs
> > (dmesg and/or messages) to get it "identity" and then look at udev
> > configuration scripts. IIUC, udev is assigned the task of identifying
> > and classifying stuff correctly. Everything else at "higher" levels of
> > abstraction would depend on those results.
> >
> > I did a locate on udev and some promising things popped up.
> >
> > /etc/udev
> > /etc/sysconfig/modules/udev-stw.modules
> > /etc/udev/devices
> > /etc/udev/makedev.d
> > /etc/udev/rules.d
> > /etc/udev/udev.conf
> >
> > Plus there's a bunch of docs about it up in /usr/share/doc/udev-095,
> > including overview and writing-udev-rules. "man -k udev" offers some
> > potential help too.
> >
> > I hope there's an answer hidden in there somewhere.
> >
> > >
> > > Thanks, including for the chuckle.
> >
> > Chuckles are free, grins @ $0.01.
>
> I believe the problem is simple really.
>
> fstab has the device listed as LABEL=misc, and HAL reports it as /dev/sdX,
> the Gnome file manager sees these as 2 separate devices and presents them
> as such.
If the "misc" is getting automounted, that would be a problem. But
wasn't the "noauto" option tried (I can't remember)?
>
> Find a way to have Gnome stop scanning the fstab file and have it rely
> completely on HAL, or have HAL ignore all devices listed in fstab.
>
> -Ross
> <snip sig stuff>
--
Bill
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