Bug#353296: Same problem here

[Sjoerd Simons]

On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 12:30:23PM -0500, Carlos Moffat wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:31 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le vendredi 17 février 2006 à 20:13 -0500, Carlos Moffat a écrit :
> > > I can confirm the "no icon on desktop" bug. I've run gnome-volume
> > > manager from a terminal. No erros appear, the usb stick (or ipod) get
> > > mounted, an icon is created in computer:// (not on the desktop), but
> > > when I click on it it just says "unable to mount..." and the rest.
> > > 
> > > Any feedback would be great.
> > 
> > Which kernel are you running?
> > 
> > Both of you, can you send me the result of:
> > dpkg -l udev "*dbus*" "*hal*" ?
> > 
> > Regards,
> 
> I'm running 2.6.14 (nothing weird, except for a swsusp2 patch), which
> I've running for ages (=many months) now.

Since 2.6.15 netlink mount events are deprecated (will be fully removed in
2.6.16), so hal now only polls /proc/mounts (only possible with kernel 
 >= 2.6.15). This could be causing this issue, but iirc gnome-vfs2 checks
 >/proc/mounts itself too, so i'm not sure.

  Sjoerd
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