[Mageia-dev] mkinitrd and Mageia2

Fri Jan 27 16:17:10 CET 2012

On 01/27/2012 09:45 AM, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> Well it's complicated. The different DE's do things differently. 
+> AFAIK, GNOME has used udev for a long time, and I had it in my head 
+> that KDE did also, but they are totally separate implementations. But 
+> I do see here, that my USB stick is not showing up in GNOME now. I'll 
+> try later in KDE and try and pinpoint where the weak link is. The 
+> urpmi stuff does still use HAL and should really be ported as HAL 
+> shouldn't be used now (I've got it disabled on all my mga1 machines 
+> anyway as I don't use urpmi+CD/DVD media). Col 
+
+Just for the record, this doesn't involve urpmi.  This is just things 
+like brasero and wine apps not being able to "see" loaded media that 
+aren't mounted.
+
+KDE detects that it's there, and reads the volume label to display in 
+the Devices popup, but doesn't mount it, probably because k3b doesn't 
+use mounted media anyway (the first thing it does is umount the disk).  
+Things like VLC, "Play disk" which take the /dev/srX device address work 
+as well.
+
+Sounds like several things are still relying on what hal does.  Is there 
+some intentional reason why volumes are no longer automounted ?
+