Automount in Gnome

[Steve Holmes]

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Arch Linux doesn't have a plugdev group or at least mine doesn't.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 06:51:20PM -0700, James Mcphee wrote:
> 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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> >> > -Eric 'shubes'
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> > Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry
> >
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> > that I wish it always to be kept alive.
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