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DOSDEMIGOD · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 3 Location: New York

Hello all,

Pmount has just stopped working. It was right after I switched to IceWM.

I am not sure why. It opens..but when I attempt to mount a drive it just closes and does nothing. I installed Pdrive which seems to work perfectly. I can mount and unmount no problem. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

disciple · Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 07:25 Post subject: Pmount is broken in 4.1.1

Yes, I may have the same problem. I just got 4.1.1 (never had 4.10) and started setting it up, but Pmount stopped working - not sure if it was caused by changing the locale or the jwm or GTK theme or the wm settings or what. The rox buttons work, but it just closes when I click the refresh button, the mount buttons or the settings button.
I certainly hope we've broken something and it never happens to anyone else, because any user that it happens to should be put off Puppy all together Sad

The new desktop icons thing isn't working for me either. Clicking on a drive just opens pmount, even if the drive is already mounted. I don't think it should open pmount even if the drive is unmounted.
And it really should have a feature to automount drives at bootup - I'm pretty sure that's the main thing people liked Hotpup for.

Béèm · Posted: Mon 10 Nov 2008, 09:14 Post subject:

Oh boy,
Same for me in 4.1.1 and jwm.
I didn't notice as I use always the desktop icons for the devices.
Not very helpful, huh.

disciple · Posted: Wed 12 Nov 2008, 23:57 Post subject:

Pmount exits at line 295

disciple · Posted: Thu 13 Nov 2008, 08:36 Post subject:

Interesting. I was trying xfce, so I installed xfce_pupevent_410.pet as well and pmount now works, although the desktop icons still just open pmount when I click on them...

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2290 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

Barry has noted both this and a USB bug in his dev blog,

Reference: http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00484

Béèm · Posted: Thu 13 Nov 2008, 10:54 Post subject:

This problem has nothing to do with Barry's comment about USB.
I have the same problem when trying to mount IDE HDD's.
It's definitely a problem in the pmount script. (or another script related)

PaulBx1 · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Posts: 2308 Location: Wyoming, USA

I ran pmount from rxvt, mounted sda1, and umounted it, and then quit. I had to ctrl-c out of the rxvt to get it to terminate even though the gui had exited. So pmount *apparently* worked for me, but the rxvt session was not clean:

disciple · Posted: Thu 13 Nov 2008, 18:09 Post subject:

Sorry, just to clarify - it was broken before I tried xfce.

DOSDEMIGOD · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Posts: 3 Location: New York

I guess this is still unresolved issue? Thanks for your posts guys. I was running Puppy 4.1 and it seemed to be working fine until I loaded the new window manager and themes. I am new to linux..so I am not sure why this would affect a utility that mounts drives.

disciple · Posted: Fri 14 Nov 2008, 00:19 Post subject:

disciple · Posted: Thu 20 Nov 2008, 06:27 Post subject:

OK, I've been unable to replicate the MUT problem, but as well as finding that installing the xfce event manager .pet fixed mut, I found that after uninstalling it both MUT and the desktop icons are fixed Smile

I guess that .pet must have overwritten whichever file(s) caused the problems...

disciple · Posted: Thu 04 Dec 2008, 03:51 Post subject:

Barry sent me a PM trying to track this problem down:

CatDude · Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 1355 Location: UK

Hi

I have experienced this, using Puppy-4.1.1-retro,
and i am able to replicate it.

I set up a fresh frugal install, the only thing i did, was to setup the connection.
Pmount was working as one would expect it to.
So i made a backup of this from another puppy install.

Upon booting back into said frugal install,
i decided to download and install this: icewm-1.2.35Latestv2.pet
As posted here: icewm for Puppy 4.0 Plus extras !!!!!2.6MB pet

I am not accusing ttuuxxx or anything, just stating facts.

After the install of the icewm package was finished (i did not restart X),
still in JWM i tried Pmount again, and found that it was broken.

Further investigation revealed that: /usr/share/themes/Gradient-grey
was overwritten when the above mentioned icewm was installed.

Going to: Menu > Desktop > Chtheme GTK theme chooser
Pmount works Ok, using any one of the following EXCEPT Gradient-grey.

Looking at the contents of /tmp/xerrs.log
i saw quite a few WARNINGS,
such as:

BarryK · Posted: Thu 04 Dec 2008, 19:02 Post subject:

CatDude,
Thanks for your response.

Looking in your xerrs.log, it has this many times:

/sbin/pup_event_frontend_d: line 503: [: too many arguments

Line 503 in pup_event_frontend_d is this:

if [ $RAMSAVEINTERVAL -ne 0 -a $SAVECNT -gt $RAMSAVEINTERVAL ];then

Now, SAVECNT is a count variable inside pup_event_frontend_d, however
RAMSAVEINTERVAL is got out of /etc/eventmanager. Looking earlier in
the script:

. /etc/eventmanager #has RAMSAVEINTERVAL, ICONDESK, HOTPLUGNOISY, ICONPARTITIONS, BACKENDON
RAMSAVEINTERVAL=`expr $RAMSAVEINTERVAL \* 60` #convert minutes to seconds.

Now, also in xerrs.log, I see this:

expr: syntax error
/sbin/pup_event_frontend_d: line 503: [: too many arguments

...the first time that the "too many arguments" is reported.

By logical deduction, something is wrong with your RAMSAVEINTERVAL in
/etc/eventmanager.
Could you please post what it is?