Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
2010/1/5 Alan E. Davis lngn...@gmail.com: It seems to me that it is possible to unmount the drives manually, many times, if not always, if it is impossible to unmount them via nautilus. Other File Managers work differently, I think Thunar may be more straightforward, not sure, though. Maybe this will all pass soon enough, but for now, on one of my machines, especially, I have to reboot frequently. If it's hal that is at work, then perhaps I can restart that? But when I did something similar, the window manager, at least, restarted. I'm at my machine now and can report as follows: Mounting a USB stick manually by running: $ pmount /dev/sda1 gives me this mounted device: /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type vfat (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=441,umask=077,fmask=0177,dmask=0077,iocharset=iso8859-1) which I *cannot* unmount using Konqueror. Selecting 'safely remove' does not do anything (and I can't see any messages in the logs on this version of Konqueror). Mounting the device using Konqueror allows me to unmount it both using the Konqueror GUI and manually by issuing pumount /dev/sda1. PS. I have not set up any fancy USB rules for this drive. -- Regards, Mick
[gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for example). All of my flash drives have labels, and usually they mount on /media, when plugged in. However, not always, but often, when I have unmounted one of them, the name stays visible on Nautilus, and it is impossible to mount it again by plugging it in. Another time, I reorganized the partitions on a flash drive, into one partition. After this, I was unable to plug it in to mount it. Uniformly, the expected behavior is recovered after rebooting. I am using these drives to maintain git repositories of subdirectories, so I need to be able to access various drives on demand, by pluggint them in. I am not sure where to look for help. The USB guide, etc. didnt seem to help. Is there an init script that I can restart to recover the volume management function? Thank you for any ideas. Alan Davis Avid user of Gentoo, knows enough to get into trouble.
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
On Monday 04 January 2010 12:55:34 Alan E. Davis wrote: Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for example). All of my flash drives have labels, and usually they mount on /media, when plugged in. However, not always, but often, when I have unmounted one of them, the name stays visible on Nautilus, and it is impossible to mount it again by plugging it in. Another time, I reorganized the partitions on a flash drive, into one partition. After this, I was unable to plug it in to mount it. Uniformly, the expected behavior is recovered after rebooting. I am using these drives to maintain git repositories of subdirectories, so I need to be able to access various drives on demand, by pluggint them in. I am not sure where to look for help. The USB guide, etc. didnt seem to help. Is there an init script that I can restart to recover the volume management function? Thank you for any ideas. All I can say (I don't use Gnome and Nautilus to be more helpful with the specifics) is that there is a difference between mounting a device via hal and mounting it manually. I recall that you can't mix the two - when I tried it on my machine (using Konqueror) it wouldn't work. I think hal complained, but can't recall off hand. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)
Thank you for taking the trouble to answer. On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:41 AM, Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com wrote: All I can say (I don't use Gnome and Nautilus to be more helpful with the specifics) is that there is a difference between mounting a device via hal and mounting it manually. I recall that you can't mix the two - when I tried it on my machine (using Konqueror) it wouldn't work. I think hal complained, but can't recall off hand. It seems to me that it is possible to unmount the drives manually, many times, if not always, if it is impossible to unmount them via nautilus. Other File Managers work differently, I think Thunar may be more straightforward, not sure, though. Maybe this will all pass soon enough, but for now, on one of my machines, especially, I have to reboot frequently. If it's hal that is at work, then perhaps I can restart that? But when I did something similar, the window manager, at least, restarted. Thanks again, Alan
