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Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 7

CD and USB won't automount

Hello there! I bearly got arch linux installed in my machine. Managed to install most of my drivers so far, however I can't manage to make my USB automount and appear in the desktop. It won't automount the CDs that i put inside, or even show the icon of the cd/dvd rom in the computer place, i don't even know how to mount it manually. I do know how to manually mount the usb flash drive, but the icon does not appear in the desktop or the Computer place. I have GNOME. can someone please help me?

The Orange Peanut

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Registered: 2008-01-06

Posts: 152

Re: CD and USB won't automount

Is HAL installed and in your rc.conf daemon array?  Is your cdrom commented out of fstab?

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: CD and USB won't automount

I dunno about Gnome as I use KDE.
I'm lazy and do things graphically so I access through konqueror.
To mount my cd/dvd's/floppy I open Konq, press the up arrow key until I'm at /.
The cd's/dvd/s/floppy can be mounted manually in /dev, at least with KDE and I'd assume it would be the same through Gnome.

Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: CD and USB won't automount

So far what I have in my rc.conf
DAEMONS=(dbus hal fam syslog-ng network netfs autofs  crond fglrx alsa gdm)

and my fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

#/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
#/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/usb  vfat  rw,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

UUID=96b12148-6b0f-4829-b59f-475166402c02 / ext3 defaults 0 1
UUID=97179255-e394-4cc3-aa03-02fb338b5812 swap swap defaults 0 0

windtalker

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Registered: 2008-03-17

Posts: 220

Re: CD and USB won't automount

# /etc/fstab: static file system information
#
# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0

/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/cdrom1 /media/cdrom1   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=0b888460-badc-4f9b-843d-f8d06d1635b3 swap swap defaults 0 0
UUID=32c9d792-8bc1-4c75-b4fd-1541871c41a6 /boot ext2 defaults 0 1
UUID=7381cc48-375e-4de3-945b-9dea6e62d61b / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
UUID=e3a0b77b-cd81-447c-9590-02f27e98ec49 /home ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network netfs crond alsa hal fam kdm3 cups)

Last edited by windtalker (2008-12-19 09:20:40)

Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

Posts: 7

Re: CD and USB won't automount

Can somebody please help me?

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: CD and USB won't automount

what version of hal do you have?

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Obliviouse

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Registered: 2008-12-19

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Re: CD and USB won't automount

Version
hal-0.5.11-4

thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: CD and USB won't automount

Remove the dbus entry in your DAEMONS array--Hal will autostart dbus, and having both entries defined can cause problems.

It's been a while since I ran GNOME, but I'm pretty sure you also need the 'gnome-volume-manager' package installed to enable automount behaviour.

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broch

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From: L.A. California

Registered: 2006-11-13

Posts: 975

Re: CD and USB won't automount

yup, CD/DVD/USB worked but not anymore (no changes to rc.conf).
resorted to editing /etc/fstab and placed CD/DVD/USB icons on my desktop.