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quadmachine

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Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 18

Automount not working, HAL... [SOLVED]

Hello. When I mount my USB drive manually with

sudo mount -o uid=1000 /dev/sdb /media/usb

it works OK, the icon on the desktop shows also... I'm using Gnome.

Anyway, i tried to set it up to mount automatically, but it doesn't work. I get no error at all. Simply when I plug the usb stick in, nothing happens.

I have added hal to /etc/rc.conf, dbus is NOT listed there. Also gnome-volume-manager is installed, and my user IS a member of groups "storage" and "optical"... so it seems to me like i've done everything neceseary for this to work But still no...

Also CD/DVD automounting doesn't work. This is my fstab:

UUID=0bcc79be-4b0d-4bf5-a7a4-d6649bc10605 / ext3 defaults,noatime,nodiratime 0 1
UUID=88f274ee-cd83-4e3f-9080-077a2e407036 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda2 /media/smetliste ntfs-3g users,uid=1000,gid=100,fmask=0013,dmask=0002,locale=hr_HR.UTF-8 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0

Any help?
Cheers!

Last edited by quadmachine (2008-12-20 23:55:30)

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wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: Automount not working, HAL... [SOLVED]

install hal from testing and comment the last two lines that you posted

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quadmachine

Member

Registered: 2008-12-08

Posts: 18

Re: Automount not working, HAL... [SOLVED]

I commented these two last lines (it was commented before but didn't work) and updated udev, and it works now. Obviously udev was the troublemaker

Cheers!

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Bysshe

Member

Registered: 2004-12-10

Posts: 271

Re: Automount not working, HAL... [SOLVED]

Yep, upgrading to Udev in the testing repository fixed CD mounting for me, too.  Haha.  Thanks!