On 02/20/2014 11:24 AM, Werner Joss wrote:

which looks good, alas, I use a USB flash drive and it is *not* mounted automatically as I hoped.

In Kubuntu 10.04 the ps command returns

,---- | 106 24280 0.0 0.1 16988 4564 ? Ssl 16:00 0:00 /usr/sbin/hald | root 24281 0.0 0.0 3536 1280 ? S 16:00 0:00 hald-runner | root 24310 0.0 0.0 3612 1248 ? S 16:00 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event12 /dev/input/event9 /dev/input/event8 | root 24313 0.0 0.0 3612 1224 ? S 16:00 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch | root 24319 0.0 0.0 3612 1236 ? S 16:00 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-leds | root 24326 0.0 0.0 3608 1240 ? S 16:00 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-generic-backlight | root 24328 0.0 0.0 3624 1252 ? S 16:00 0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-cpufreq | 106 24329 0.0 0.0 3420 1172 ? S 16:00 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket | oub 24611 0.0 0.0 3324 808 pts/3 S+ 16:05 0:00 grep hal `----

Which looks a little different.

Any suggest is very very welcome

Uwe Brauer

First - is your install sysV or systemd? If systemd, then do you have consolekit installed? If no, then TDE must be patched to work in a systemd environment without console kit.

The problem is user session/process tracking in TDE has not been updated to work with systemd. If you have systemd+consolekit and launch tdm through the old sysV init script, then everything will work through systemd compatibility mode.

Without consolekit you have hit bug 1902. In that case, user mount of drives and access to sound may not work. Further, any tdeio processes opened (e.g. http/file/sftp) will not exit when the connection is closed and you will end up with LOTs of tdeio_file, tdeio_http, tdeio_sftp processes running on your box. However, there is a limit to the number of simultaneous processes that can be opened, so you will not run into a memory exhaustion situation.

See: http://bugs.pearsoncomputing.net/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1902

This is a known issue and should be fixed shortly.