Re: Automounting USB drive on GNOME stopped working...

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 07/02/07 09:35, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote:
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> Hi
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> I have been having problems with automounting USB drives in GNOME. It
> used to work flawlessly, but suddenly stopped (I know that 'suddenly
> stopped' is a bit too vague, but that's what I've got...).
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> I am not in front of my home computer right now, so I will give details
> as they come to memory, sorry about that.
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> CDs get automounted perfectly. USB drives used to work as well. The two
> drives that I have tested were a Kingston 1GB pendrive and an HDD MP3
> player from Cowon, which acts as an external HDD when plugged in the USB
> port. They are both behaving the same way: when I plug the device in the
> USB, it will load the drivers and assign a /dev/sd* node. They both work
> ok if I manually mount them.
>
> I have checked if gnome-volume-manager is running, and it is. I have
> killed it and re-run it with -no-daemon and watched the output.
>
> It will detect the drive, but then it says something like 'not a
> mountable volume' and remove it from automounting... I am running a mix
> system of lenny and sid, and have tried packages from both, notably
> udev, hal and gnome-volume-manager and no success..
>
> Any ideas?

Have you updated any packages lately?

Have you run "tail -n40 -f /var/log/syslog" while plugging in the 
pen drives?  Or is that what you mean by "it will load the drivers 
and assign a /dev/sd* node"?

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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