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plockery

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Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 41

automount/autofs problem with xffm

I am setting up arch with xfce4.
Xfce4 is working ok.
Tried to install autofs/automount.
Followed the instructions on the wiki to the letter!

Have come up, however, with a weird problem.

None of the /media directories come up in xffm (cdrom, floppy or usbstick) whether as root or normal user.

They come up fine in a terminal (either as root or user) but not in xffm.
They only come up in xffm if I am currently at the same directory in a terminal window.
This is independent of whether xffm is run as root or normal user.

Seems very weird to a newbie to arch.
Can anyone tell me what is going on?

Peter

mezoko

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Registered: 2005-03-26

Posts: 310

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Re: automount/autofs problem with xffm

I can' thelp you there but what I use is ivman. I tell it to start whenever I startx because it not working as root for some reason :-/

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plockery

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Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 41

Re: automount/autofs problem with xffm

It appears that autofs only works properly with the command line and not graphical file managers.

I tried loading and using nautilus as well but got exactly the same behaviour.

automount only works in a graphical environment after the removable media has been recognised from the command line.

This might just be a problem with the xfce winodw manager.

Has anybody got automount working directly from a graphical file manager?

iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: automount/autofs problem with xffm

Try something like ivman + hal + dbus.

Works awesomely.

plockery

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Registered: 2005-04-15

Posts: 41

Re: automount/autofs problem with xffm

Thanks for the tip.
ivman looks good.
I think i will try and install and configure it

Is there a good wiki/help page regarding step by step installation and configuration?

iphitus

Forum Fellow

From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: automount/autofs problem with xffm

Just install them, and take the .default off the default configs in /etc/ivman/.

iphitus