Automount in Gnome

[Dazed_75]

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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