daemon mounts all mountable media regardless of user interaction

[isign]

Binary package hint: ivman

The following scenario reproduces the bug:

If the user inserts a mountable media, like a HD or USB stick, a dialog pops up from which the user can choose what to do with the inserted media. If the user does not immediately choose an action, the media will be mounted in the background by ivman. Furthermore, 'ivman' will be the user who mounted the medium and no other user is allowed to unmount it, except for root.

For now, I am repeating the following workaround on every machine I am using:
Edit /etc/ivman/IvmConfigActions.xml and comment out the lines right after
"<!-- try to mount any mountable volume at all -->"

Then everything works fine for me.

[Daniel Hahler (blueyed)]

I can confirm this.
It happens that I get the following error from kio_media_mounthelper when trying to "Eject" a mounted DVD from the desktop:
"""
Unfortunately, the device system:/media/hdd (/dev/hdd) named 'Ubuntu 7.04 i386' and currently mounted at /media/cdrom0 could not be unmounted. The following error was returned by umount command:
umount: only ivman can unmount /dev/hdd from /media/cdrom0
"""

[Leo Milano (lmilano)]

I started having this problem in Kubuntu, after upgrading to the unsupported 3.5.7, a little while ago. Yesterday I cleaned up some obsolete packages, and I found I had ivman installed, but it didn't show as a supported package in synaptic. So, I uninstalled ivman, and voila, everything is working just fine. I am not sure if this would help, but I thought I should let you know.

Cheers!
-- Leo

[Leo Milano (lmilano)]

I meant to say, "to the unsupported KDE 3.5.7 from the Kubuntu.org repositories".

[Albin Tonnerre (lutin)]

Any news about that bug ?