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#1 2010-09-25 13:20:18

guriinii
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[SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

Hello all,

I'm having a problem getting pcmanfm to recognise my external HD in the left panel, although it can be mounted manually. Upon searching this forum and the wiki to find a solution all I have managed to do is confuse myself.

Any help is appreciated.

Last edited by guriinii (2010-09-26 00:53:53)


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#2 2010-09-25 14:04:04

lagagnon
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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

Are you launching your window manager in your .xinitrc file using ck-launch-session ?? e.g.:

exec ck-launch-session fluxbox


Also do you have hal running or not?


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#3 2010-09-25 14:30:21

guriinii
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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

Yes hal is in my daemons array and in .xinitrc I use:

exec openbox-session

I'll try running it with ck-launch-session.


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#4 2010-09-25 14:37:48

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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

The pcmanfm in Arch currently uses gvfs/gnome-disk-utility for mounting. I'd suggest either install pcmanfm-0.5.2 which uses HAL directly, or a git version of pcmanfm which uses udisks directly. In either case though, you'll need ck-launch-session.

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#5 2010-09-25 14:42:09

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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

you need exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox in .xinitrc.

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#6 2010-09-25 14:56:28

guriinii
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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

I've used "exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session" in .xinitrc.

Still no change. I'll try pcmanfm-git and udisks. Will I have to make any changes to .xinitrc?


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#7 2010-09-25 15:12:35

guriinii
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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

Sorted, thank you for the help. Pcmanfm-git and udisks works perfectly.


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#8 2010-09-25 15:14:55

xaber
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Re: [SOLVED] hal, udev, udisks, pcmanfm, policy kit, automount confusion

You also can try installing thunar: it's a good file manager and I saw all through various forums that pcmanfm is often cause of many issues.

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