On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:19 +0200, Rasmus Back wrote:
Hi.
In FC3 plugging in a USB thumbdrive worked automagically, the voulme would just show up on my desktop. I did a clean install of FC4 and now the same thumbdrive doesn't show up at all. I started hald in verbose mode, see attached log file for details. Apparently the thumbdrive is recognized and attached to /dev/sdc, but the final step of mounting it is not performed. I have checked the option in gnome-volume-manager to automatically mount removable media.
Are my problems related to the "no runnable /etc/hotplug/*_device.agent is installed" messages? Hotplug owns /etc/hotplug and I can't think of any rpms that could be missing. Googling around there seems to be lots of people with related problems, but those problems are usually caused by the kernel not recognizing the drive at all. I can manually mount the thumbdrive, but then the contents are owned by root and it's a hassle to copy stuff over. I have a LaCie d2 that has the same problems (regardless of if I use USB of firewire).
Thanks, Rasmus
We had a thread on this last week.....
It sounds like a line is being added to /etc/fstab to represent your thumbdrive? That is what udev/hald/hotplug are responsible for..... If there is no line being added to /etc/fstab then we would troubleshoot there....
Actually mounting it is a different set of programs. Are you GUI? Are you running Gnome or KDE? The GUI environments have X clients that are monitoring the devices being added and "may" perform the mount. In Gnome this is controlled in Desktop-Preferences-Removable Drives and Media. I do not know where it is in KDE (and is perhaps more problematic) and that is part of what last week's thread was talking about....
HTH,
--Rob