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wizzard

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From: PA, US

Registered: 2006-10-17

Posts: 33

Re: USB automounting in GNOME

works fine for me, thanks!

EDIT:

while it does fix the usb auto-mounting problem, it introduces a different problem: hard drive partitions are no longer auto-mounted

Last edited by wizzard (2007-11-05 05:26:17)

gothicknight

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From: Portugal

Registered: 2006-04-08

Posts: 219

Re: USB automounting in GNOME

This for me looks like an udev issue, as other devices are well plugged, do you have some "extra" lines in your udev rules for that device? Also, KDE uses pmount to mount the devices and gnome uses gnome-volume-manager, so that might be also a question to see.

Here, all devices are working fine so... can it be a faulty hardware or maybe some wierd line in udev, hal or even usb-storage blacklist that is preventing this?

freakcode

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From: São Paulo - Brazil

Registered: 2007-11-03

Posts: 410

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Re: USB automounting in GNOME

Why all that confusion foxbunny?

Some minutes ago I connected my camera, just to find out that GNOME wasn't automouting it (yet).

I just added my user to some groups (hal, dbus, storage), installed gnome-volume-manager and started it under my gnome session. Now I connect my camera or USB stick and it just works.

MAKE SURE THE FOLLOWING:
- fam, dbus, hal daemons running on /etc/rc.conf
- your user added to hal, dbus, storage groups on /etc/group
- install gnome-volume-manager
- execute gnome-volume-manager under your user credentials

If none of this works, can only be a problem with your USB stick, as it appears on dmesg and then can't be a problem with your motherboard/usb drivers/kernel.

Last edited by freakcode (2007-11-09 18:48:08)

killajoe

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From: Berlin Planet Earth

Registered: 2007-07-04

Posts: 168

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Re: USB automounting in GNOME

what's about autofs?

i`ll just be testing it by:

pacman -Sy autofs
/etc/rc.d/autofs start

and it is automounting external usb hd automaticly... now testin a reboot with autofs in the daemon section of /etc/rc.conf

i`ll be back then...

>> is working fine!

there is an autofs wiki page here but for Gnome 2.20 it is working out of the box without editing any of the files provided there only the 3 steps i offer above...

joe

Last edited by killajoe (2007-11-13 22:54:32)

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foxbunny

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From: Serbia

Registered: 2006-10-31

Posts: 759

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Re: USB automounting in GNOME

Why all that confusion foxbunny?

The original post is quite old. The problem was reported fixed after GNOME update, so I still believe it *was* broken, *before* the update.  At least for me, and my particular USB stick. I'm almost 100% sure it was GNOME because it worked under KDE with the exact same setup of HAL, DBUS, whatever. Dmesg output double-checked, nothing was there. I posted that before. Also, FAM has nothing to do with how devices mount, afaik.

So, basically, what I want to say is there is no confusion at all.

Last edited by foxbunny (2007-11-14 00:12:46)

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