Re: udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 21:06:50 -0500, H. S. <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am using Sarge with a kernel 2.6.7-1-686. I have udev and hotplug and
> gnome-volume-manager. However, I do not get an icon automatically when I
> plug in a USB stick. In the other two machines in my home LAN, in which
> I am running Sid, I can get the icon consistently.
>
> In this machine, running Sarge, I set up udev the same way as in other
> machines. Sometimes (rarely) when I plug in the USB stick I do get the
> icon on the desktop and it gets automatically mounted. Also, this hasn't
> happened for a few days now. Usually, it happens only if I insert the
> USB stick for the first time after reboot.
>
> But syslog shows that it sees USB insertion and de-pluggin events
> consistently. I also get the links made in /dev as I have specified in
> udev rules files for the USB stick I have. The only thing that does not
> happens is that the icon does not appear on the desk and it does not get
> mounted automatically (just as if gnome-volumen-manager is not seeing
> the stick). I have tried it in 2.6.9 kernel as well, but it doesn't work
> there even. Any idea what I am missing here?
>
Do you have "pmount" installed and "gnome-volume-manager" running and
registered in your Gnome session?
Andrea
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