From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-17 22:41:01
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I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". HAL, as used by DevTray, is now deprecated, so Media uses the new DeviceKit-disks via libgdu, part of the gnome-disk-utility project. It can also be used in a system/status tray instead of as a ROX panel applet so people who only use ROX to replace the file manager in another desktop should find it useful too. Media still needs more work before it's fit for release, but the basic functionality is there now, so I think it's ready for alpha/beta testing. I've set up a git repository at git://rox.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/rox/Media and you can browse it and download snapshot tarballs at <http://rox.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=rox/Media;a=summary>. To build it you need scons and development packages for gdu, gtk2 (including gdk-pixbuf) and gconf2. At the moment it uses gconf only to get mount options, but I'll probably implement options for things like automatic mounting at some point. It's a good idea to add "flush" to the options for /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options (using gconf-editor for instance). |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-18 05:39:08
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Tony Houghton wrote: > I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". > HAL, as used by DevTray, is now deprecated, so Media uses the new > DeviceKit-disks via libgdu, part of the gnome-disk-utility project. It > can also be used in a system/status tray instead of as a ROX panel > applet so people who only use ROX to replace the file manager in another > desktop should find it useful too. > > Media still needs more work before it's fit for release, but the basic > functionality is there now, so I think it's ready for alpha/beta > testing. I've set up a git repository at > git://rox.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/rox/Media and you can browse it > and download snapshot tarballs at > <http://rox.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=rox/Media;a=summary>. > > To build it you need scons and development packages for gdu, gtk2 > (including gdk-pixbuf) and gconf2. At the moment it uses gconf only to > get mount options, but I'll probably implement options for things like > automatic mounting at some point. It's a good idea to add "flush" to the > options for /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options (using > gconf-editor for instance). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference Hmmph. Bleeding Ubuntu doesn't have packages for gdu :mad: |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-18 12:29:40
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:38:25 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Hmmph. Bleeding Ubuntu doesn't have packages for gdu :mad: I didn't notice that. It'll be in Karmic though. Not long to wait :-). -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: A. C. C. <ac...@gm...> - 2009-10-18 13:07:19
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 10:27 AM, Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 06:38:25 +0100 > Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > >> Hmmph. Bleeding Ubuntu doesn't have packages for gdu :mad: > This? http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/libgdu0 Package: libgdu0 (2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1) GObject based Disk Utility Library The gnome-disk-utility library provides an user-space interface to the DeviceKit-disks objects and properties (such as drives, volumes, SMART data), and operations (such as mounting, unmounting, creating and checking partitions). This package contains shared libraries to be used by applications. -- A. C. Censi accensi [em] gmail [ponto] com accensi [em] montreal [ponto] com [ponto] br |
From: Abrolag <ab...@us...> - 2009-10-18 14:12:14
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100 Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote: > I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". > HAL, as used by DevTray, is now deprecated So soon? It seems only the other day everyone was saying use this instead of hotplug :( I'll have a look when(if?) I get time. -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-18 17:37:52
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Abrolag wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100 > Tony Houghton<h...@re...> wrote: > >> I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". >> HAL, as used by DevTray, is now deprecated > > So soon? > It seems only the other day everyone was saying use this instead of > hotplug :( > > I'll have a look when(if?) I get time. > Damn it I have bloody libgdu0 ~/Media-473884f75a09c55170a1e2e3df099bad52c88da1$ make scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... Checking for C library X11... yes Checking for C header file X11/Xatom.h... yes Package gdu was not found in the pkg-config search path. Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gdu.pc' to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable No package 'gdu' found OSError: 'pkg-config --cflags --libs gconf-2.0 gdu gtk+-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0' exited 1: File "/home/mark/Media-473884f75a09c55170a1e2e3df099bad52c88da1/SConstruct", line 1: SConscript('src/SConscript') File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 612: return apply(method, args, kw) File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 549: return apply(_SConscript, [self.fs,] + files, subst_kw) File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Script/SConscript.py", line 259: exec _file_ in call_stack[-1].globals File "/home/mark/Media-473884f75a09c55170a1e2e3df099bad52c88da1/src/SConscript", line 14: media_env.ParseConfig('pkg-config --cflags --libs ' \ File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Environment.py", line 1447: return function(self, self.backtick(command)) File "/usr/lib/scons/SCons/Environment.py", line 585: raise OSError("'%s' exited %d" % (command, status)) make: *** [scons] Error 2 It's so unfair :( Especially as the dev files don't exist for Ubuntu. |
From: A. C. C. <ac...@gm...> - 2009-10-18 17:54:36
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On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 3:37 PM, Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > make: *** [scons] Error 2 > > It's so unfair :( > > Especially as the dev files don't exist for Ubuntu. > There are devfiles too! http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=gdu&searchon=names&suite=karmic§ion=all You have searched for packages that names contain gdu in suite(s) karmic, all sections, and all architectures. Found 4 matching packages. Package libgdu-dev * karmic (libdevel): GObject based Disk Utility Library - development files 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1: amd64 i386 Package libgdu-gtk-dev * karmic (libdevel): GTK+ standard dialog library for libgdu - development files 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1: amd64 i386 Package libgdu-gtk0 * karmic (libs): GTK+ standard dialog library for libgdu 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1: amd64 i386 Package libgdu0 * karmic (libs): GObject based Disk Utility Library 2.28.0+git20091012-0ubuntu1: amd64 i386 -- A. C. Censi accensi [em] gmail [ponto] com accensi [em] montreal [ponto] com [ponto] br |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-18 18:31:52
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Tony Houghton wrote: > I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". > HAL, as used by DevTray, is now deprecated, so Media uses the new > DeviceKit-disks via libgdu, part of the gnome-disk-utility project. It > can also be used in a system/status tray instead of as a ROX panel > applet so people who only use ROX to replace the file manager in another > desktop should find it useful too. > > Media still needs more work before it's fit for release, but the basic > functionality is there now, so I think it's ready for alpha/beta > testing. I've set up a git repository at > git://rox.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/rox/Media and you can browse it > and download snapshot tarballs at > <http://rox.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=rox/Media;a=summary>. > > To build it you need scons and development packages for gdu, gtk2 > (including gdk-pixbuf) and gconf2. At the moment it uses gconf only to > get mount options, but I'll probably implement options for things like > automatic mounting at some point. It's a good idea to add "flush" to the > options for /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options (using > gconf-editor for instance). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference Hmm. I keep getting this error GConf error looking up mount options for : Bad key or directory name: "/system/storage/default_options//mount_options": Can't have two slashes '/' in a row Any idea what to do about it? |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-18 18:47:52
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:31:12 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Hmm. I keep getting this error > > GConf error looking up mount options for : Bad key or directory name: > "/system/storage/default_options//mount_options": Can't have two slashes > '/' in a row > > Any idea what to do about it? Try the latest commit. What type of FS are you trying to mount? -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-18 19:21:39
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Tony Houghton wrote: > On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:31:12 +0100 > Mark Williams<mar...@nt...> wrote: > >> Hmm. I keep getting this error >> >> GConf error looking up mount options for : Bad key or directory name: >> "/system/storage/default_options//mount_options": Can't have two slashes >> '/' in a row >> >> Any idea what to do about it? > > Try the latest commit. What type of FS are you trying to mount? > It's a usb key with Linux on it. I think the file system is fat16 or 32 |
From: Ruediger L. <ru...@ma...> - 2009-10-19 13:51:41
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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100 Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote: > I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". I've a usb gadget that don't contain a partition table, just a file system. rox-media doesn't show this media, although I can mount it with devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdX. On the other side, encrypted disks show up, but I can't mount them. And sometimes, it kills rox, if used as an applet. But I can't reproduce this error. |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-19 17:43:11
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:59 +0200 Ruediger Langendorf <ru...@ma...> wrote: > On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100 > Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote: > > I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". > > I've a usb gadget that don't contain a partition table, just a file system. > rox-media doesn't show this media, although I can mount it with > devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdX. I think I've fixed that now, please try the latest version. > On the other side, encrypted disks show up, but I can't mount them. I guess I'll have to start experimenting with encrypted FSs. ISTR some messages in ucol from someone who found it confusing because Linux supports more than one type of encrypted filesystem and he couldn't work out whether one was "better" than the other. Is there a HOWTO or something you'd recommend? > And sometimes, it kills rox, if used as an applet. But I can't > reproduce this error. I've found that too, Thomas Leonard and I think it might be a GTK bug. I managed to greatly reduce the frequency of the crashes by fiddling about with the way I create my widgets, but I haven't managed to get rid of the crashes altogether. I might try something along the lines of adding an idle between creating the plug widget and attaching the first icon to it. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-19 19:11:43
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Tony Houghton wrote: > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:59 +0200 > Ruediger Langendorf<ru...@ma...> wrote: > >> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100 >> Tony Houghton<h...@re...> wrote: >>> I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". >> >> I've a usb gadget that don't contain a partition table, just a file system. >> rox-media doesn't show this media, although I can mount it with >> devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdX. > > I think I've fixed that now, please try the latest version. > >> On the other side, encrypted disks show up, but I can't mount them. > > I guess I'll have to start experimenting with encrypted FSs. ISTR some > messages in ucol from someone who found it confusing because Linux > supports more than one type of encrypted filesystem and he couldn't work > out whether one was "better" than the other. Is there a HOWTO or > something you'd recommend? > >> And sometimes, it kills rox, if used as an applet. But I can't >> reproduce this error. > > I've found that too, Thomas Leonard and I think it might be a GTK bug. I > managed to greatly reduce the frequency of the crashes by fiddling about > with the way I create my widgets, but I haven't managed to get rid of > the crashes altogether. I might try something along the lines of adding > an idle between creating the plug widget and attaching the first icon to > it. > I tried mounting my USB key/thumb drive/whatever and got this message Unable to mount /dev/sdf1: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: /dev/sdf1 is not a valid block device Make of that what you will. BTW. When compiling what follows after scons? |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-19 19:19:25
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Mark Williams wrote: > Tony Houghton wrote: >> On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:34:59 +0200 >> Ruediger Langendorf<ru...@ma...> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 23:40:42 +0100 >>> Tony Houghton<h...@re...> wrote: >>>> I'm writing a new applet for removable media, "Media" aka "rox-media". >>> >>> I've a usb gadget that don't contain a partition table, just a file system. >>> rox-media doesn't show this media, although I can mount it with >>> devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdX. >> >> I think I've fixed that now, please try the latest version. >> >>> On the other side, encrypted disks show up, but I can't mount them. >> >> I guess I'll have to start experimenting with encrypted FSs. ISTR some >> messages in ucol from someone who found it confusing because Linux >> supports more than one type of encrypted filesystem and he couldn't work >> out whether one was "better" than the other. Is there a HOWTO or >> something you'd recommend? >> >>> And sometimes, it kills rox, if used as an applet. But I can't >>> reproduce this error. >> >> I've found that too, Thomas Leonard and I think it might be a GTK bug. I >> managed to greatly reduce the frequency of the crashes by fiddling about >> with the way I create my widgets, but I haven't managed to get rid of >> the crashes altogether. I might try something along the lines of adding >> an idle between creating the plug widget and attaching the first icon to >> it. >> > I tried mounting my USB key/thumb drive/whatever and got this message > > > Unable to mount /dev/sdf1: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code > 32: mount: /dev/sdf1 is not a valid block device > > Make of that what you will. > > BTW. When compiling what follows after scons? > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA > is the only developer event you need to attend this year. Jumpstart your > developing skills, take BlackBerry mobile applications to market and stay > ahead of the curve. Join us from November 9 - 12, 2009. Register now! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/devconference Oh. And a minor aesthetics request. Could you, maybe, make it a lighter blue as it tends to be quite hard to see against dark panel backgrounds. Especially on slim panels. |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-19 21:08:11
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 20:18:43 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Mark Williams wrote: > > > > Unable to mount /dev/sdf1: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code > > 32: mount: /dev/sdf1 is not a valid block device > > > > Make of that what you will. Is it the same device that was giving gconf errors before? It seems like devicekit isn't recognising the filesystem on it. What is the filesystem and can you mount it with other tools? > > BTW. When compiling what follows after scons? Nothing, scons replaces configure and make. I only added makefiles for my convenience. > Oh. And a minor aesthetics request. Could you, maybe, make it a lighter > blue as it tends to be quite hard to see against dark panel backgrounds. > > Especially on slim panels. Yeah, I've been thinking it needs to be a lighter colour too. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Ruediger L. <ru...@ma...> - 2009-10-19 22:45:54
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On Mon, 19 Oct 2009 18:42:56 +0100 Tony Houghton <h...@re...> wrote: > > I've a usb gadget that don't contain a partition table, just a file > > system. rox-media doesn't show this media, although I can mount it > > with devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdX. > > I think I've fixed that now, please try the latest version. thanks, it works now as expected. > I guess I'll have to start experimenting with encrypted FSs. ISTR some > messages in ucol from someone who found it confusing because Linux > supports more than one type of encrypted filesystem and he couldn't > work out whether one was "better" than the other. Is there a HOWTO or > something you'd recommend? Yes, there are many solutions; but only cryptsetup/luks ( http://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/ ) is supported by devicekit/GduDevice and desktop environments like gnome or kde. The simplest solution would be to add a check for encrytped devices in check_add_presentable and ignore them completely ;) ( the check is 'g_strcmp0(gdu_device_id_get_usage(dev), "crypto") == 0' ; gdu_device_is_luks seems to have another meaning,.. ) However, I've just found out that this does not only occur by encrypted devices. If a partition don't contain a filesystem at all, they are shown nevertheless, too. I would either ignore them (like DevTray) or start a utilty like gdu-format-tool on mouse click. |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-19 23:32:11
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:45:07 +0200 Ruediger Langendorf <ru...@ma...> wrote: > The simplest solution would be to add a check for encrytped devices in > check_add_presentable and ignore them completely ;) ( the check is > 'g_strcmp0(gdu_device_id_get_usage(dev), "crypto") == 0' ; > gdu_device_is_luks seems to have another meaning,.. ) That would do as a temporary measure, but it should be possible to get a password from the user and mount it shouldn't it? > However, I've just found out that this does not only occur by encrypted > devices. If a partition don't contain a filesystem at all, they are > shown nevertheless, too. I would either ignore them (like DevTray) or > start a utilty like gdu-format-tool on mouse click. I thought I couldn't find a reliable way in the API to tell whether a partiton contains a valid filesystem, but it looks like I can tell this after all by using the "type" property. That should be better than my current hack of excluding extended partitions by checking whether a device contains another device. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-20 07:10:19
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Tony Houghton wrote: > On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:45:07 +0200 > Ruediger Langendorf<ru...@ma...> wrote: > >> The simplest solution would be to add a check for encrytped devices in >> check_add_presentable and ignore them completely ;) ( the check is >> 'g_strcmp0(gdu_device_id_get_usage(dev), "crypto") == 0' ; >> gdu_device_is_luks seems to have another meaning,.. ) > > That would do as a temporary measure, but it should be possible to get a > password from the user and mount it shouldn't it? > >> However, I've just found out that this does not only occur by encrypted >> devices. If a partition don't contain a filesystem at all, they are >> shown nevertheless, too. I would either ignore them (like DevTray) or >> start a utilty like gdu-format-tool on mouse click. > > I thought I couldn't find a reliable way in the API to tell whether a > partiton contains a valid filesystem, but it looks like I can tell this > after all by using the "type" property. That should be better than my > current hack of excluding extended partitions by checking whether a > device contains another device. > Hey Tony. Could you maybe put a link to ROX Media on your home page? |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-21 21:58:14
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On Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:45:07 +0200 Ruediger Langendorf <ru...@ma...> wrote: > However, I've just found out that this does not only occur by encrypted > devices. If a partition don't contain a filesystem at all, they are > shown nevertheless, too. I would either ignore them (like DevTray) or > start a utilty like gdu-format-tool on mouse click. I've made quite a few changes today, so those of you trying it out should download an update. It only takes notice of devices whose usage property is "filesystem" now which simplifies things a lot (CDs/DVDs still need a little bit of special treatment though). Eventually it might be nice to support audio and blank CDs too. Adding special features for VCD and DVD video would be a bit trickier, I'm not sure if you can detect them without mounting the filesystem. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-22 21:17:29
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:08:24 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > You mean this? > `pkg-config --cflags --libs gdu gtk+-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0` \ > test.c > test.c:26:29: error: gdu-gtk/gdu-gtk.h: No such file or directory Oops. Get an update or change it to include <gdu/gdu.h> instead of gdu-gtk. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-22 22:01:19
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:53:12 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Tony Houghton wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:08:24 +0100 > > Mark Williams<mar...@nt...> wrote: > > > >> You mean this? > >> `pkg-config --cflags --libs gdu gtk+-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0` \ > >> test.c > >> test.c:26:29: error: gdu-gtk/gdu-gtk.h: No such file or directory > > > > Oops. Get an update or change it to include<gdu/gdu.h> instead of > > gdu-gtk. > > > I don't understand. Update what? Change what? If you used git to download Media, run git update to update it, because I've just fixed that problem in test.c. But if you downloaded a tarball, instead of downloading the whole thing again just to get one little update, it might be more convenient to edit the file test.c so that the offending line reads #include <gdu/gdu.h> instead of #include <gdu-gtk/gdu-gtk.h> -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Mark W. <mar...@nt...> - 2009-10-22 22:11:24
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Tony Houghton wrote: > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:53:12 +0100 > Mark Williams<mar...@nt...> wrote: > >> Tony Houghton wrote: >>> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:08:24 +0100 >>> Mark Williams<mar...@nt...> wrote: >>> >>>> You mean this? >>>> `pkg-config --cflags --libs gdu gtk+-2.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0` \ >>>> test.c >>>> test.c:26:29: error: gdu-gtk/gdu-gtk.h: No such file or directory >>> >>> Oops. Get an update or change it to include<gdu/gdu.h> instead of >>> gdu-gtk. >>> >> I don't understand. Update what? Change what? > > If you used git to download Media, run git update to update it, because > I've just fixed that problem in test.c. But if you downloaded a tarball, > instead of downloading the whole thing again just to get one little > update, it might be more convenient to edit the file test.c so that the > offending line reads > > #include<gdu/gdu.h> > > instead of > > #include<gdu-gtk/gdu-gtk.h> > Yeah, I just downloaded the tarball of the new build (GIT gives me a headache). I already sent a message about it, but in case it doesn't get through here's what I got running make after scones make scons scons: Reading SConscript files ... Checking for C library X11... (cached) yes Checking for C header file X11/Xatom.h... (cached) yes scons: done reading SConscript files. scons: Building targets ... scons: `.' is up to date. scons: done building targets. |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-22 22:07:43
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:58:26 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Oh, that update. > > Okay done that, sooned and then ran make. Here's the output Now I need you to run the "test" file it created and paste the output (with your memory stick plugged in), and also tell me which device the stick is (/dev/sdb or whatever) if you know. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-22 23:10:29
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On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:16:04 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Okie doakie. I believe it's sdf > > I've attached the test output DeviceKit seems to think it doesn't contain any partitions or a filesystem at the top level. Can you mount it with "devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdf"? Is it recognised by anything else eg DevTray or GNOME? -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |
From: Tony H. <h...@re...> - 2009-10-23 12:05:03
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On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 11:59:51 +0100 Mark Williams <mar...@nt...> wrote: > Tony Houghton wrote: > > On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:16:04 +0100 > > Mark Williams<mar...@nt...> wrote: > > > >> Okie doakie. I believe it's sdf > >> > >> I've attached the test output > > > > DeviceKit seems to think it doesn't contain any partitions or a > > filesystem at the top level. Can you mount it with > > "devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdf"? Is it recognised by anything else eg > > DevTray or GNOME? > > > Here's what I get with devkit etc > > devkit-disks --mount /dev/sdf > Mount failed: Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 32: mount: > /dev/sdf is not a valid block device > > And it doesn't mount with DevTray either Is there anything it does work with, eg GNOME, Windows? It's behaving as if it isn't formatted and it doesn't seem to contain a partition table either. Some devices are supposed to have a FS at the top-level, but it's more usual to have a partition table with one partition taking up all the space. -- TH * http://www.realh.co.uk |