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beast123

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 20

[SOLVED]Disks and volumes no longer automount

Hello

I upgraded a couple of days ago for the first time in a month or two. I just now realized disks and volumes are no longer auto mounting. My disk has a 26 gig (i forget the exact amount) partition for vista, and the rest of the 160gb harddrive for arch.

The vista partition used to get automounted and be displayed on my desktop. External hardrives, usb flash drives, and cd's also used to get automounted. Now when I insert any of those, it is recognized, but not mounted. I have to mount the volume manually. I know its recognized because it shows up is lsusb. I have check and the hal daemon is still running. Restarting it doesn't help.

Here is my /etc/fstab

# 
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
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# <file system>        <dir>         <type>    <options>          <dump> <pass>
none                   /dev/pts      devpts    defaults            0      0
none                   /dev/shm      tmpfs     defaults            0      0


/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
/dev/dvd /media/dvd   auto    ro,user,noauto,unhide   0      0
UUID=238ceec2-b079-4364-b309-93401c8b86a0 / ext3 defaults 0 0
UUID=dba7a333-5c51-480e-afc7-d3ce28a4ed31 swap swap defaults 0 0

If you need any other files, please ask

Thanks

Last edited by beast123 (2009-03-21 19:28:54)

ladislaio

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From: Greenville, Pennsylvania

Registered: 2007-09-22

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED]Disks and volumes no longer automount

I assume that by auto mounting you mean that the system mounts a new drive, and then provides a file manager window or icon to access it by.  This type of auto mounting is handled by the wm or desktop and HAL, while the file that you provided is for static mounting, and what you have there only handles the root and swap file systems.

So, in light of this, what desktop enviorment(Gnome, KDE, XFCE4) or wm r(Fluxbox, windowmaker...) are you using?

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beast123

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Registered: 2008-09-11

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Re: [SOLVED]Disks and volumes no longer automount

I see. I am using gnome

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: [SOLVED]Disks and volumes no longer automount

This has been discussed before....many times over. Go to the wiki page for HAL. Look into the TroubleShooting section and follow the instructions regarding PolicyKit.

On a side note: Since Arch is a rolling release, it is always better to update more than once in 2 months. I am not saying to go trigger happy, but at least once in a week should be good. That way, if there are issues, people have come across it in threads and the solutions are posted as well.

Last edited by Inxsible (2009-03-16 16:45:32)

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beast123

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Registered: 2008-09-11

Posts: 20

Re: [SOLVED]Disks and volumes no longer automount

You are right. Searching the wiki was the first thing I did, but I guess I never got to the Hal page. For future reference, I had to follow this:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … utomounter

Sorry for the bother