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Hello! I am a newbie to ARCH. When I first installed it, my USB drive almost always was detected AND auto-mounted upon booting into GNOME. It was beautiful. This shows that I have DBUS/HAL and all that nice stuff installed.
After a while, I decided to update my daemons as below. (i added portmap and fam --- that is all!)
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network portmap fam dbus hal netfs crond alsa openntpd gdm)
Anyway... now the USB external drive is never automatically detected or mounted, period. I have to boot into GNOME, THEN unplug the USB cable... wait a bit... plug it back in. Then it is detected. Then I have to manually do:
mount /dev/sda5 /media/usb
mount /dev/sda6 /media/usb
to mount them. This is very annoying.
Is there anyway to get consistent detection and auto-mounting behavior??? It was working fine the first few times. No idea where I went wrong, friends.
btw... i am in the proper groups for my user too, though that is irrelevant because if i wasn't, it would still show up, just give me a security msg preventing mounting - GROUPS = disk wheel ftp dbus hal network video audio optical storage camera power users pacman
Last edited by darweth (2007-04-07 13:42:39)
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Well, I eventually discovered the necessity of gnome-volume-manager and all is fine now. No more help needed. Weird that the behavior was bipolar w/o it though.
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