pcmanfm won't mount drives after udev upgrade

[kl522]

Ok, new info. I did not realise that knoppix has been supporting such features. After what you have posted, with some checking/reading, I finally know what you are talking about.

I think it's very likely what you say are all true but all these are no more important with pcmanfm2. Maybe not immediately, but soon ( as I am using it now, compiled from git source ). With pcmanfm2 and the right version of associated libraries, it's not necessary to scan the disk partitions using knoppix code (scanpartitions and rebuildfstab ) and therefore no need to have udev to execute those knoppix rules and generate /etc/fstab. Pcmanfm2 probably does not even bother with /etc/fstab. Pcmanfm2 has an option to show internal volumes or hide internal volumes. When internal volumes are shown, of course you will then be able to manage them accordingly using the GUI. At the same time, it manages dynamic ( usb ) volumes too.

So in the mean time, maybe you can hold off your udev upgrade. Just wait until the right version of pcmanfm2 hits the street.

[mecho]

Thanks a lot for your research kl522. I am glad that you acknowledged the issue and I am not just paranoid I already reverted back to the old udev and will do exactly what you said - wait for pcmanfm2 to mature a little bit more and make the switch

[mecho]

I finally managed to upgrade udev without breaking the system. If anyone is about to make this step - please read this post.
I upgraded all 3 packages: libudev,libgudev and udev to version 160-1
To make the system work I had to edit line 109 of /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig. I commented out the original line:
/sbin/udevd --daemon && \
and added below it:
/etc/init.d/udev start 2>/dev/null >/dev/null

So far there are no side effects. FSTAB is recreated properly at every boot. pcmanfm mounts all drives-hard drives and usb
kl522 claims that upgrading udev does not break his system without the modification of knoppix-autoconfig, but unfortunately this is not the case here.
According to me the upgraded udevd fails to start in daemon mode using the original command included in knoppix-autoconfig. If any ill effects show up I will post them here

[kl522]

FSTAB is recreated properly at every boot. pcmanfm mounts all drives-hard drives and usb

Related to the other thread I posted, I would be interested to know if you add a device after you booted into Xwindows, and as soon as it drive object appears on the pcmanfm, you click on it to see if it is mountable.

Example, if you boot from a flash drive, there will be /media/sdaX and /media/sdbX stuff created since boot ( sdaX for internal harddisk and sdbX for the knoppix boot image). Then you add yet another usb thumb drive, by right udev should create a /media/sdcX for you to mount the usb. But 'rebuildfstab' is doing it in the background. I have seen on my computer cases where the drive object appears in pcmanfm, but yet the directory is not created fast enough. I am interested to know if it happens on other computer.