Bugzilla Bug 165079

I have just installed gentoo on my laptop, and because it pulled in kdebase
3.5.5-r1, it didn't pull in pmount.

My usb pen drive will mount happily in this state, but safely remove doesn't
work. When I install pmount, it is fine again. Suggesting that this dependency
is put back in for now.

Reproducible: Always

So emerge pmount if you can't live without it, instead of trying to cram this
thing down the throat for everyone else?

Pmount was a dependency for KDE for a long time. It was removed in 3.5.5-r1 and
now part of the functionality - automatic mounting AND unmounting of removable
media fails.

Please add pmount back at least as an optional dependency, via USE flags.

kdebase-kioslaves changelog says

  02 Dec 2006; Diego Pettenò <flameeyes@gentoo.org>
  kdebase-kioslaves-3.5.5-r1.ebuild:
  pmount is no more a dependency.

Why did this happen? It's clearly (optionally) supported by KDE.

CC:ing flameeyes for an explanation.

Don't CC me for bugs assigned to KDE, you just annoy the hell out of me because
I get the mail on urgent bugs.

pmount is no more a _requirement_ for the functionality, as HAL can take care
of the mount/unmount support on some setups.

If you need pmount support, you can install it by yourself, KDE will pick it
up. Maybe a pmount useflag might help, but myself I don't feel the need for it.

I think a pmount use flag would be really useful here. Is there
documentation anywhere as to how to get a setup working where pmount is
no longer needed, as is being suggested?

I follow this guide http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml but "safely
remove" don't remove my usb pen.
If I try to umount get "umount: /tmp/prova non si trova in fstab (e non si è
root)" and I must use root to umount.

With pmount installed I have no problem.

I think HAL can't take care of the unmount support on some systems and NEED
pmount to "safely remove"

P.S. sorry for my poor english.

This issue seems to be partially resolved in KDE 3.5.6 (devices
mounted/umounted fine without pmount installed)

I say "partially" because kio_media_mounthelper, after umounting the device,
display an errore like "device umounted with success, but not cannot ejected
properly"

I have kde 3.5.5, pmount installed and I still get this problem. I fixed it by
following an instruction given at gentoo-wiki.com:

ln -s $(which ivman) ~/.kde/Autostart/ivman

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_ivman#Starting_ivman_as_root

So you need to start ivman as root and as regular user.

Sorry ignore that last comment, it stopped working again.

Is this still a problem in 3.5.7?

(In reply to comment #9)
> Is this still a problem in 3.5.7?
> 

The problem partially persists in 3.5.7.

I've checked it few seconds ago: without pmount, my USB stick is umounted with
succes, but KDE shows up an error, already detailed in my comment #6.

On all the systems I can test on pmount is not needed. I can confirm the bug
about after umounting it gives an error about not being able to eject the
device. I think this is probably more of an upstream issue, but may be if we
get time we can take a look and see if it is possible to clean up.

I don't see why you would need pmount or ivman with KDE 3.5.7. If we do I would
certainly be willing to look into this further. As far as I can see people are
just getting the error right now? If that is the case I think it is workable
but certainly needs polish.

(In reply to comment #10)
> 
> I've checked it few seconds ago: without pmount, my USB stick is umounted with
> succes, but KDE shows up an error, already detailed in my comment #6.
> 

Ok, following the suggestion proposed here:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4195064.html#4195064

i've solved the problem. There's also a related bug: #186028

Resolving this as DUP of bug 186028 since pmount is not the problem here.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 186028 ***