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Post subject: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
 Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 12:23 PM
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We finaly found a possible reason, why usb-device automount fine for most users, but some don't get an icon or a notifier.
The culprit is gparted.
If that crashes after partitioning, which it does sometimes in the current version, it create the file
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/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi
that prevents usb-devices being automounted or an icon appearing.
so, if you have such an issue, look if you have the above file:
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cd /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/
ls -l
if its there: rm -rf gparted-disable-automount.fdi
or use a gui to delete the file.
reithi found this answer in a fedora forum and it took me days to crash gparted, but it worked 
greetz
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 01:12 PM
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| Aha! This issue cropped up on my 32bit- and sure enough the file was there. Fixed, phew. |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Oct 10, 2007 - 08:24 PM
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| Nice work! I've been trying to figure this out for the past week when I repartitioned. I don't remember it crashing but it may have. It's fixed now! |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 01:34 PM
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good find...
I took the most drastic way and re-installed sidux with gaia, even though I had partially fixed the problem.
I wonder, how and why gparted crashes? and how did you *tried days!* to crash gparted, devil? |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 02:41 PM
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well, this morning i tried again, and gparted vanishes after each task it has finished.
i partitioned a stick a few times, made it bootable, and gparted vanished every time.
sidux has a fixed version for the above bug (gparted-disable-automount.fdi) but not for the crashing.
gparted is very poorly maintained in debian at the moment, so i doubt our fix will be picked up anytime soon or the crashing fixed. 
greetz
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Oct 15, 2007 - 06:06 PM
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| @devil: no error logged anywhere when gparted crashes? |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Nov 23, 2007 - 04:01 AM
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Are there any differences between external usb 2.5" hdd and normal bigger size external usb hdd?
I'm having world of problems with my portable 2.5" ext hdd as I can't seem to get them to automount (or mount at all!!)
It's an 2.5" seagate external hdd (160gb) and it has forked-usb connector, ie one for power one for data+power.
And it's a typical, age old sidux problem. It had worked before, where it auto mounted and allowed me to copy/move to/from as I pleased;
It first developed a habit of not allowing me to modify anything but only read and copy from and now;
I can't even get it to auto mount!! |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Nov 23, 2007 - 07:07 AM
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you should always be able to mount on cli with pmount.
if not, something is wrong.
greetz
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Nov 23, 2007 - 11:03 PM
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I agree, something is wrong but for the death of me, I can't figure out what?
I brought in a friends Lacie portable hdd and used that with both firewire and usb connections, same issues.
It's more annoying to find out that, all these problems disappear when I boot into cr**py windows partition.
Is it possible that these are also related to problems wiht Gparted? |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Nov 24, 2007 - 12:39 AM
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well, if you followed this thread, just try out what i suggested, including purging gparted and reinstalling it.
greetz
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Dec 15, 2007 - 06:10 AM
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| This is exactly what killed my SuSE 10.3 and brought me to sidux. Interestingly the solution is found on the sidux forum, not the SuSE forums. |
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Post subject: RE: Cure for usb-devices nor automounting
Posted: Dec 15, 2007 - 02:16 PM
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