Re: usb device no longer auto mounts

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea.vettorello@gmail.com>]

On 2/18/06, Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org> wrote:

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> > >
> > > 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...


Andrea