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cautha

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From: Kingston, Ontario

Registered: 2008-06-02

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Dynamic mounting stopped working? system:/media now empty (KDEmod3)

I can mount things manually, but it's a pain!

I'd been avoiding fixing this one, until now. I have no idea what might have caused it, unfortunately, since I had it set up perfectly at one time...   

I once had an issue whereby I couldn't automount NTFS partitions; I got that working here. Everything was peachy, until, one day, the above happened.

Now it's not just NTFS partitions that won't show up: the whole folder is empty. I've tried reinstalling different versions of hal, because I do have the testing repo enabled and I know sometimes that can screw things up, but no luck. I'm hoping someone has had the same problem.

Here is the output of fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x15c615c6

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1       13054   104856223+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2           34598       34793     1574370   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3           13055       34597   173044147+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda4           34794       38913    33093900   83  Linux
/dev/sda5           13055       20887    62918541    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           20888       28720    62918541    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7           28721       34597    47206971    7  HPFS/NTFS

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Harry

EDIT: Is it related to this bug? If so, what versions of the affected packages should I be using?

Right now, I've got:

hal 0.5.11-1
dbus 1.2.3-3
initscripts 2008.09-2
klibc 1.5.14-1
klibc-extras 2.5-1
klibc-kbd 1.15.20080312-7
klibc-module-init-tools 3.4-2
klibc-udev 130-1
udev 130-1

If worse comes to worst, is there a way of reinstalling everything from the other repos after removing testing? I've been doing some reading, and apparently testing doesn't play well with kdemod.

EDIT #2: I was hoping there were a faster way, but I ended up typing out all of the package names like in this thread. So, I'm not using testing any more, and the above version numbers are invalid. I'm now using the latest versions from the default repos.

EDIT #3: Lo and behold, everything works now that I've removed testing! Ksplash crashed once I rebooted and logged in, which, to be honest, I don't understand. But everything else works! I'll mark this as solved if someone can tell me I haven't opened up a new can of worms.

Last edited by cautha (2008-10-14 19:06:02)