[ale] Annoying USB mount problem on Kubuntu 9.10 SOLVED

[Jim Kinney]

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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