Automount in Gnome

Fri Aug 28 02:26:55 MST 2009

On Friday 28 August 2009 01:42:54 am Steve Holmes wrote:
> I built a new "normal" user and tried it there and got the same
> results as I do with my original normal user.
> 
> Now I need to provide some more details because I found a solution to
> the problem so it seems.  I usually like to get into gnome by typing
> 'startx' from a native text console.  When I do it this way, I get the
> problems I've been writing about for the past several days.  Now if I
> use 'gdm' by starting it up from a root console and then login with
> the normal user, I get automount functionality back.  I thought gnome
> would basically operate the same way once someone is logged in
> regardless of how they got there.
> 
> Like I said before, My knowledge of gnome internal is next to none. so
> don't know much about really getting everything out of that
> environment yet.  It does seem strange to me that normal users have to
> have logged in via gdm to get this automount stuff to work but if root
> loggs in via startx then automount works strait away.
> 
> Sound confusing enough?
> 
> On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:18:47AM -0700, Dazed_75 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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Are you a member of the hal or dbus groups? Or possibly policykit ?

hal - 82
dbus - 81
policykit - 102

Check those groups.

nathan

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