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Re: Can't get hal/udev/hotplug/whatever to mount usb flash card reader



On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 13:13 +0100, René Seindal wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote (05-12-2004 11:32):
> > On Sat, 2004-12-04 at 15:14 +0100, René Seindal wrote:
> 
> >>kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in
> >>last message repeated 7 times
> >>kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in
> >>hald[10310]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 486. Rebasing to 487
> >>hald[10310]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event 496. Rebasing to 486
> > 
> > 
> > Does it all work with udev removed?  I.e., can you mount a flash
> > card into a static device?
> 
> Yes, I can mount the card reader manually.
> 
> I have since discovered that pmount, which is used by 
> gnome-volume-manager, is only executable for the group plugdev.  Once I 
> made it executable for all, most hotpluggable devices mounted immediately.

Thanks for the tip.

Did you have to add yourself to plugdev?

Should "make pmount be executable by plugdev" be a bug report to
package pmount?

And what about pmount-hal?

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