Arch Linux

GOwin

Member

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 18

sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

I'm trying to get my head around this. I inserted my sd card into my laptop's internal sd/mmc card reader, but it's not automounting.

$dmesg
mmc0: new SD card at address d136
mmcblk0: mmc0:d136 SD512 500224KiB 
mmcblk0: p1

To make it useable, I still have to isse this on the command line.

sudo mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 ./stick/

Am sorry to sound like an Ubuntu brat, but I promised myself to give this distro a try for a few weeks, however I'm really missing the conveniences of old Ubuntu. I'm using XFCE. How do I auto-mount my sd/mmc cards?

I tried http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo but it didn't work for me.

One thing I've realized is I'm *really* learning a lot more about how Linux interals are working. Kinda. Whatever.

dabski

Member

Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

Website

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

Did you try the XFCE volume manager or just AutoFS?

GOwin

Member

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 18

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

I tried both thunar-volman and autofs. no joy.

dabski

Member

Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

Website

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

The output from dmesg looks good so it looks like its a mounting problem. The only thing I can think of is to go through a checklist:
Did you enable Volman in Thunar?
Have you got dbus and hal starting up in rc.conf?
Are you a member of the need groups(not exactly sure which ones are needed) dbus, hal, storage, etc?

kishd

Member

Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

You could try the xfce4-mount-plugin. pacman -S xfce4-mount-plugin

---

---for there is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so....
Hamlet, W Shakespeare

GOwin

Member

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 18

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

Volman in Thunar is enabled. The account is a member of the necessary groups, as indicated in various wikis and forums posting I followed.

How does one use the xfce mount plugin?

dabski

Member

Registered: 2008-02-07

Posts: 101

Website

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

Once installed you can add it to the toolbar just like any other plugin.

clarence

Member

From: fremantle.au

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 294

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

check to see if you have the file 'gparted-disable-automount.fdi' located at...

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi

if so delete it.

---

fck art, lets dance.

GOwin

Member

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 18

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

@clarence
nope. i don't have such a file.

the xfce mount plugin didn't work out as well.

GOwin

Member

Registered: 2008-04-03

Posts: 18

Re: sd/mmc not auto-mounting?

I got it to work, for about two days. Now, it's not working again.

I'm tired of this. It's a nice and interesting distro that could give you the latest of whatever you like, and probably want, but I don't have the time (or enough patience) to tweak and twiddle every little part of my system, I guess I'm better off with something else.

Thanks. The forums had been helpful and the wiki is nice but I guess i'm not cut for this.