Re: usb device no longer auto mounts
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 09:35:14AM +0100, Andrea Vettorello wrote:
> On 2/18/06, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > >
> > > > I have restarted gnome (and X) to no avail.
> > > >
> > > > What do I try next?
> > >
> > > Is "gnome-volume-manager" running?
> >
> > I seem to have the same problem here - my USB hard disk (iRiver H140 MP3
> > player) is not automatically mounted any more. The modules are loaded
> > and /dev/sdc* is created, and gnome-volume-manager is running.
> >
> > I can successfully pmount /dev/sdc1 manually.
> >
> > [6:26pm] hamish@noddy:~> hal-device | grep sdc1
> > block.device = '/dev/sdc1' (string)
> > linux.sysfs_path_device = '/sys/block/sdc/sdc1' (string)
> > linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/block/sdc/sdc1' (string)
> >
> > So it looks like gnome-volume-manager is not doing the right thing.
> >
> >
> > On another PC of mine, PCMCIA IDE disks (ie compact flash card in PCMCIA
> > adapter) are not automatically mounted, but hal-device doesn't list the
> > device so I presume it's a hal or udev problem firstly.
> >
>
> Yep, i suspect this too. Testing and Sid version of
> gnome-volume-manager are the same (1.4.0-4), but i can confirm that
> with Sid auto-mounting works as expected...
This is probably a udev/kernel bad interaction. I am running sarge with a
sid kernel (but was not really able to backport udev last i tried), and i am
seeing this kind of behavior also.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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