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yim

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Registered: 2009-05-10

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(Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

I know this has been covered over and over. I have had no luck with everything I've tried that has been posted. Granted I am a newbie to Archlinux. I have lxde and pcman and every time I try to mount drives I get this

Given device "/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_7A8A_019E" is not a volume or drive

and then

Directory doesn't exist!

please help

thanks in advance

yim

Last edited by yim (2009-05-17 22:26:00)

Mr Green

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

Are you trying to mount an audio cd? need a little more information

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MattK

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Registered: 2009-04-12

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

Are you using a login manager or are you typing startx or xinit at the console?  If you are starting from the console you need to use consolekit to start the session if you want to automount.  Change this line in your .xinitrc:

exec startlxde

to

exec ck-launch-session startlxde

Also, make sure hal and fam or gamin are running.

yim

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Registered: 2009-05-10

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

@ Mr Green I have tried cd and usb flash same thing at the moment with this particular error I'm trying to mount usbflash cruzermicro

@ MattK I did as you said and change

exec startlxde

to

exec ck-launch-session startlxde

I think gamin is running though not sure it in daemons in rc.conf but doesn't show in terminal top. Maybe that's what I'm doing wrong?

thanks for the help guys

yim

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Registered: 2009-05-10

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

just bumping this thread hoping to get a bite on what I should try next, is there a way to check if gamin or fam is running?

thanks yim

yim

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Registered: 2009-05-10

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

guys I've been working on this for 2 weeks now and I can't find a solution cannot mount usb drive other than with the command line can however get cd to mount thru the mount plugin in xfce. If I'm out of bounds here by posting again, please tell me to take a hike. This is just a thorn in my side it shouldn't be this hard. I'm comming from puppy linux and didn't have a problem with it on the same pc. I must say that arch performs very good in comparison to puppy on my hardware anyway. I would really appreciate some suggestions.

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng @hotplug @network @netfs @crond @alsa fam hal)

yim

nowahn

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Registered: 2008-12-05

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

I think hal must be started before fam, try

DAEMONS=(... hal fam)

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yim

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Registered: 2009-05-10

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

nowahn

thanks for the suggestion but still no dice, I appreciate the reply though

yim

yim

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Registered: 2009-05-10

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

ok guys, found a solution ,I took off the unhide command from fstab on the /dev/sdb1 line and logged out and back in and now the mount plugin for xfce works. I don't get the media icon on the desktop anymore but no errors and it does mount and unmount via plugin.

yim

sonoran

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Registered: 2009-01-12

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Re: (Solved)mounting usb and cdrom devices

Glad you found a solution of sorts. I have been reading about HAL in the wiki, under Table of Contents/Hardware Detection and Troubleshooting/HAL/About volumes mount points/ it says:

Also keep in mind these three common problems that stop HAL from mounting a device:
...the device must NOT be listed in fstab, otherwise HAL will refuse to mount it

Perhaps if you remove the fstab entry then hal will work better.