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Re: KDE Automount stopped working



On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:59:01 -0500, Kumar Appaiah wrote:
> Dear Debian Users,
> 
> For a few days now, KDE has stopped automounting my USB and CDs. I
> seem to have to mount them myself now. To perform some diagnostics, I
> attempted to purge and reinstall hal, udev and kdebase-kioplugins, but
> to no avail.
> 
> Then, to check if the problem was something in my KDE dotfiles, I
> moved away my .kde and tried again, but it failed once more. Finally,
> I created a new user and added that user to most of the relevant
> groups (inclding plugdev), but I still failed to get it working.
> 
> Most of the forum posts I have read suggest one of the solutions I
> seem to have tried above already, and really wonder how to proceed.
> Could someone make any suggestion, please?

Which part of the process does not work for you anymore, getting icons
on the desktop for CDs and USB-sticks, or mounting and opening the media
when you click on the icons? 

> The relevant packages with their versions:
> ii  kdebase-kio-plugins   4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5      core I/O slaves for KDE
> ii  udev                  0.125-5               /dev/ and hotplug
> management daemon
> ii  hal                   0.5.11-2              Hardware Abstraction Layer
> ii  dbus           1.2.1-3        simple interprocess messaging system

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