Re: can i use udev rules to send a dbus signal

[Martin Pitt <martin.pitt@ubuntu.com>]

Hello shaoning,

shaoning [2010-12-08 16:06 +0800]:
> ACTION="add", ENV{ID_FS_TYPE}="ntfs",
> ENV{mount_options}="relatime,utf8,gid\x100,umask\02", RUN+="/bin/mkdir
> -p /media/%E{dir_name}", RUN+="/bin/mount -t ntfs-3g -o
> $env{mount_options} /dev/%k /media/%E{dir_name}",
> RUN+="/usr/bin/nautilus --no-desktop /media/%E{dir_name}",
> RUN+="/bin/dbus-send --session --type=signal /
> com.zhou.dbustest.sayhelloworld"

This isn't going to work like this. udev rules are executed as root,
so this tries to start nautilus and dbus-send as root, neither of
which makes sense. root doesn't have a session d-bus running, so the
dbus-send will just shout into the void.

udev isn't meant to run stuff for users, that needs to happen in the
user's session. It's possible to use su, read xauth cookies etc. to
pick the first X.org session and run stuff there, but all these are
horrible, horrible hacks.

If you are already using GNOME components, what's wrong with using
udisks and running nautilus as the automount daemon? If you can't do
that in your setup, you could also use a lightweight automount daemon
like [1].

Martin

[1] http://www.piware.de/2010/09/simple-udisks-based-automount-daemon/

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