Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome complaining about automount of audio CD

[Mark Knecht]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 5:53 PM, John covici <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> on Wednesday 05/13/2009 Mark Knecht(markknecht@×××××.com) wrote
>  > I wonder if someone here knows where I turn off Gnome trying to
>  > automount audio CDs and complaining that that it can't be mounted.
>  >
>  > This is a recent development with updates in the last month or two. I
>  > don't play a lot of audio CDs on my Gentoo machine but periodically
>  > copy a CD. It used to be that I would start k3b, insert a CD and k3b
>  > would go look up it's name. This still works, but recent versions of
>  > Gnome seem to be trying to automount the audio CD which is something
>  > makes no sense to me, and it fails. I'd like to fix that if possible
>  > as I don't think I ever want Gnome to automount and play audio CDs.
>  >
>  > I suspect this may be a hal-ish thing but that's totally a guess on my
>  > part and backed up by nothing.
> There is a use flag in gnome-base/gvfs called cdda which when you have
>  it in there, asks you what you want to do with your audio cd, if
>  that is not there I was getting a message about not being able to
>  mount the cd.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>         John Covici
>         covici@××××××××××.com

Thanks John. I enabled the flag. First time through it asked what to
do. Asked it to do nothing form now on and it seems to be respecting
that choice.

Cheers,
Mark