[ale] Annoying USB mount problem on Kubuntu 9.10 SOLVED

Charles Shapiro hooterpincher at gmail.com
Fri Apr 30 17:55:39 EDT 2010


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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