Udev and fstab - beginners question

[malcolm]

Ah  ! at least I now know what does what :-)

I discovered an update to hal and now everything works beautifully

many thanks to everyone

mal

On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 14:22 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:
> Just clearing up a few things (i hope)
> 
> -hotplug is responsible for detecting that something new has been
> plugged in (through a kernel-interface?), and loading the appropiate
> module
> -udev is responsible for creating devices when the module has been
> loaded
> -hal is responsible for creating the mountpoints in fstab, and by
> default uses "user" in /etc/fstab for removable media
> -gamin (or has dbusanything to do with this?) detects the change in
> /etc/fstab and notifyes
> -gnome-volume-manager, which should then show the new mountpoints, and
> if set to do so, mount them (this is default)
> 
> do a cat of /etc/fstab before and after you have hotplugged it.
> 
> do also sit in vt1 when you plug it in, and watch the messages.
> 
> have you updated hal? It is running? Is your device a
> mass-storage-device?
> 
> Possibly you should file a bug at component "hal"
> 
> lør, 02.10.2004 kl. 20.59 skrev Jon Savage:
> > On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:37:58 -0400, Charles R. Anderson <cra at wpi.edu> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 07:01:18PM +0100, malcolm wrote:
> > > > Since this is my home PC I want anyone to be able to mount usb-mp3
> > > > players, DVDs, CDRW etc. I used to do this by just bunging 'users' in
> > > > the fstab options. Now something ( udev or whatever )  overwrites it on
> > > > every boot and then I get the message 'only root can mount etc etc' -
> > > > How do I make it so that everyone and their dog can mount anything.
> > > 
> > > It is supposed to be plug-and-play... a user logged in locally to the
> > > console should just be able to plug something in and have it mount
> > > automatically, with icons appearing on the desktop, etc.
> > And that was the behaviour I saw when I installed FC3 T2, however it
> > appears to have broken since then. No Idea when it broke since I've
> > not plugged any USB storage in (until just now) since I tested it
> > immediately subsequent to the install. I looked on bugzilla under
> > udev,hotplug,hwdata,hwbrowser (did I miss anything?) and don't see
> > anything open.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Bests,
> > Jon
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