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muchzill4

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-30

Posts: 30

[SOLVED] Openbox,thunar & automounting via usb doesn't work.

It seems I've got a problem with openbox I've recently isntalled. (at least yesterday at xfce automount worked).
It doesn't automount usb devices (cd/dvd works like charm), what's more 'lsusb' gives no results about external hd.
Dmesg gives output about new usb device:

usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 38
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi20 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 38
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 20:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       2500BEV External 1.05 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB)
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB)
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 21 00 00 00
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdc: sdc1
sd 20:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk
sd 20:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

Any tips?

Last edited by muchzill4 (2009-03-31 08:27:42)

JF

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From: France

Registered: 2009-03-27

Posts: 39

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox,thunar & automounting via usb doesn't work.

Hi, maybe that's two separate issues because openbox is not a desktop environment but just a windows manager which only has to deal with drawing them. You need additional software to manage mounting devices, as kwikdisk does in KDE.

I found a good presentation and some ideas about devices automounting at Ubuntu's wiki: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Openbox.

About the lsusb issue it's weird because obviously the driver is loaded and recognize the disk as it the device has been created in /dev. Why it's absent in /proc (what lsusb looks into) is beyond my understanding.

Does mounting the partition(s) on sdc manually work ?

Edit: sorry I didn't read carrefully enough: in your title you precised that you're not using openbox as standalone but with xfce. Does the device at least appears as unmounted in thunar ? If yes can you launch thunar from a terminal to see its output whe you try to mount the device ?

Last edited by JF (2009-03-30 23:08:20)

muchzill4

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-30

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox,thunar & automounting via usb doesn't work.

Can't find it in /dev (I guess i'm supossed to look for additional sd* entry) and it doesn't show up in thunar either (=> can't mount).

I use standalone openbox with xfce4 apps like thunar and thunar-volman (afaik it's similar to kwdisk + it works with cd/dvd doesn't it? ). I hope somebody can help me, because I transfer data thru usb devices pretty often.

Last edited by muchzill4 (2009-03-31 06:22:36)

muchzill4

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From: Poland

Registered: 2009-03-30

Posts: 30

Re: [SOLVED] Openbox,thunar & automounting via usb doesn't work.

It's a bit weird. What fixed it was adding udev rules with automounting (I dunno how come xfce mounted it and openbox didn't). I must have messed up something.