Re: [rox-devel] More DeviceHandler issues

[Jonatan L. <li...@ky...>]

Tony Houghton wrote:
> Oops, I posted this to the wrong list before.
> 
> 1. Failure to create device icons in Ubuntu Edgy
> 
> Today I investigated why DeviceHandler doesn't create icons on my Ubuntu
> Edgy laptop. It's not DeviceHandler's fault, but it's something that
> could be fixed by changing DeviceHandler. The problem is that Ubuntu's
> sh is dash which is broken. When DeviceHandler tries to run a rox
> command with heredoc notation, dash includes the 'EOF' string at the
> end, causing rox to reject it as invalid XML. It's not the only problem
> I've had with dash, but I can't remember what the other thing was;
> something to do with IFS IIRC. But anyway, this heredoc problem could be
> avoided by changing DeviceHandler I think, because there's no need for
> it to use heredoc.  The command could be one long line (but still be
> split up in the python source to keep it neat).
> 
> 2. Incorrect mount point
> 
> I think this bug may have been introduced in 0.2.10, looking at the
> ChangeLog. When I insert a CD ROM the pseudo-app is initially created
> pointing to /media/cdrom but pmount mounts it to /media/hdc. Clicking on
> it does mount the disc correctly, but it opens the wrong directory or
> produces an error unless I symlink to /media/cdrom. Subsequent clicks
> open the correct directory. I think to fix this DeviceHandler will have
> to scan /etc/fstab to make sure it's consistent with pmount.

If one doesn't use fstab-sync, there will be no entries in fstab for the
devices. I don't think that's the right fix. I get the problems here too
sometimes...

Another example is that it doesn't handle spaces in mountpoints right.
If the inserted media gets mounted as "My USB stick" DeviceHandler fails..

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