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soylent_green_is_hamster

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 109

odd hal automounting problem

Hi

usually when I bung a dvd in my drive, hal automounts it to /media and I can see it in thunar

but all of a sudden it gets mounted to /mnt/cd and when I click on it in thunar I get the following error:

Failed to mount "stuff".
Failed to determine the mount point for /dev/hdc

nor can I eject it, I get a message saying it wasn't mounted by hal:

how can I find out what is mounting it and stop it??

I've recently installed banshee and rhythmbox, could this have anything to do with it?

soylent_green_is_hamster

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 109

Re: odd hal automounting problem

In case anyone cares, or has a similar problem I fixed this

I think the problem was I had pmount installed as a dependancy of one of the mp3 players I installed (banshee I think), and it was auto-mounting dvds before hal got a chance.

When I uninstalled banshee, it didn't uninstall the huge amount of other packages it installed with it. I'm still an arch newbie, and would like to know how I would have uninstalled banshee and all the other packages that come with it using pacman.

Anyone help?

CavalierBob

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From: San Francisco Bay Area

Registered: 2006-07-20

Posts: 110

Re: odd hal automounting problem

From the Arch Wiki:

To also remove all of the packages dependencies which aren't used by any other installed package:

pacman -Rs package_name

I think this will do what you want.

Bob

soylent_green_is_hamster

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Registered: 2006-11-15

Posts: 109

Re: odd hal automounting problem

yep - thanks