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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

USB media is not automounted

Hello, I have a problem. I loggin into KDE or GNOME as a root to secure that I don't have group problems. On the both Desktops, USB storage devices are not automounted for a few days (maybe 1-2 weeks).

Why? What's the matter and how can I solved it? My system is fully up2date.

Greetings

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: USB media is not automounted

Start with lsusb and usbview....Then hal as a daemon and the order of daemons. ahead of others

EDIT: Perhaps upgrade hwd to latest since there were problems before 5.2-1....

Last edited by lilsirecho (2007-12-02 23:45:37)

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Davigetto

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From: In your mind

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 266

Re: USB media is not automounted

lsusb

[david@helena ~]$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 058f:6387 Alcor Micro Corp. Transcend JetFlash Flash Drive
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I have hwd 5.2, all my system is full updated

hal is on my array:

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network hal hwd @alsa ipw3945d dhcdbd networkmanager fam !autofs @laptop-mode !entranced !netfs !gdm 915resolution samba kdm crond)

Automounting worked until a few days...

Also kernel detects it, cause I can mount it manually.

Last edited by Davigetto (2007-12-03 07:09:56)

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mintcoffee

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 120

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Re: USB media is not automounted

Did you install gparted? Check /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/ to see if there is a file called something like "gparted-disable-automount.fdi" file. You can remove it, then restart hal and then it should be working again

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dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: USB media is not automounted

Well I'll be a monkey's uncle! Thanks mintcoffee, that worked!! I noticed that file is not owned by a package. Any idea how it gets there? gparted did crash on me while formatting my usb drive -- maybe the file is only supposed to exist while gparted is running.

Last edited by dmartins (2008-01-11 03:10:46)

synorgy

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Registered: 2005-07-11

Posts: 272

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Re: USB media is not automounted

IIRC you are correct dmartins - that rule is supposed to only exist while gParted is doing something to the harddrive. Obviously what happens when gParted crashes is that it sticks around. (on a side note - gParted should check for that rule on startup and remove it...)

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