Automount in Gnome

[James Mcphee]

On ubuntu systems, you have to be part of the "plugdev" group to get the
removable media automatically.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Dazed_75 <lthielster at gmail.com> wrote:

> I apologize if you have already tried this (I deleted some of the earlier
> messages after reading them).  But have you tried creating another normal
> user and logging in as that user to see what happens when you plug the USB
> device in?
>
> If that works, the problem is fairly certain to be in some setting or
> conflict for your usual user only.  If it does not the problem is likely
> something to do with how "normal" users are defined in your system and their
> permissions to do things.  The ability for a normal user to use removable
> [and writeable] devices which would commonly be denied to normal users in
> some environments.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 6:47 PM, Steve Holmes <steve at holmesgrown.com>wrote:
>
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>> Yes I followed the suggestions and updated hal and udev from the
>> testing repo but still no go.  Strangely, it works fine if I login as
>> root but from my normal user account, it just goes as far as finding
>> and identifying the device but it won't mount to save its life.  In
>> fact, if I go to Computer, the device shows up in the list of volume
>> names but if I right click and attempt to mount, it just ignores it.
>> Yet if root plugs in the device, it comes up in the Nautilus view
>> without a problem.  I can then leave it plugged in and logout from
>> root and log back in with mynormal account and the drive is still
>> accessible but mounted under root.  I guess logging out of gnome
>> doesn't unmount the drive; not sure what is supposed to happen there.
>>
>> I don't know enough about gnome internals to know where to look
>> further.  So more help would be greately appreciated.  BTW, thanks for
>> the link though; that gave me something to try.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:35:41AM -0700, Eric Shubert wrote:
>> > Have you seen this?
>> > http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77716
>> >
>> > Steve Holmes wrote:
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>> > > I have a question and a problem here with the automounting of drives
>> > > and media in Gnome.  Let me try and sort out what I know here.  On my
>> > > normal user account, when I plug in a USB drive of any kind, the
>> > > automount feature of gnome doesn't take hold.  HAL discovers it ok and
>> > > even will build the sym links in /dev/disk/by-label but gnome won't
>> > > pick this up and make it available.  All the volume and removable
>> > > device options are set properly.
>> > >
>> > > Now I just tried logging into gnome this morning from my root account
>> > > and there, the device automounted and everything seemed to work
>> > > great.  I guess there is a difference between my normal user's
>> > > settings and root's.  Where can I find the settings in conf files or
>> > > whatever to possibly fix this automount problem?
>> > >
>> > > I'm running 2.6.30 kernel on an Arch Linux system with latest updates
>> > > which includes Gnome 2.26 right now.
>> > >
>> > > Any help or ideas?
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