From a user-end stand-point of an LTSP client, plugging in a usb, mounting the device, and then having icons appear in the desktop and file-manager for that device is crucial. Even more so, end-users need to be able to use the file-manager to safely unmount a given usb device. The problem: LTSP 5.2, out of the box, properly sets up the usb device and mounts it on the LTSP server. Thunar-volman does not recognize that this device was mounted and therefore no usb device is added to the file-manager and desktop. The potential causes of this problem are: - when a usb is plugged into the client, there is no physical device on the server end; the device gets automounted via an ltsp-specific FUSE file system. - The mount point for these devices is /media/username/devicename/ instead of the normal /media/devicename/ This may be related to the following bug reports: http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4878 http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4670 http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4224 FYI: nautilus handles this out of the box and it uses DBUS/HAL just like Thunar. Perhaps the solution may be in how nautilus handles DBUS/HAL messages? Or Perhaps nautilus monitors /media/ ?
Hi, Is anyone able to reproduce this bug? Jannis, what is the code logic for deciding when a USB device was mounted in polman? Do you actually watch folders or use another approach? Do you have a clue where potential contributors should look at to close this issue?
Closing old bugreports