On Don, 2005-09-29 at 16:42 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > Jürg Billeter wrote these words on 09/29/05 16:31 CST: > > On Don, 2005-09-29 at 16:22 -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote: > >>And the weirdest part of this is that I don't even think it is using > >>D-BUS/HAL to do this. Sticking the device in the hub will automatically > >>create the appropriate /dev entries. And clicking on the icon/folder > >>automatically mounts the device. > > > > Does the icon in 'Computer' show up upon inserting the device or is it > > there all the time? > > It is there all the time, apparently because it reads an entry in > /etc/fstab. > > > > And if I understand you correctly, there is no fstab entry for the > > device - neither written by fstab-sync nor manually, right? > > No, there *is* an entry for this in /etc/fstab. But I would like > to get away from this because: > > I have some plugin devices that are vfat partitions and some are > Linux partitions. Having dedicated fstab entries means that I > cannot just insert whichever device whenever as the fstab entry > for /dev/sda1 may be set up for a vfat partition, and if I plug > in a linux partitioned device as the first USB device, it probably > wouldn't mount (though I haven't tried this).
Sure, static fstab entries aren't really suited for USB devices... > > Bottom line is that I cannot get hotplug events, nor fstab-sync > to work properly. > > Any suggestions? Don't really know where the origin of the problem is. Maybe you should try to debug step by step, e.g. create a simple wrapper script for hal.hotplug and check that it gets called when plugging in the device, then see whether fstab-sync gets called, etc. You may of course compare your installation with my specifications[1] or my hal-enabled rescue-cd[2] if that helps you but I don't use classic hotplug anymore. Jürg [1] http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/hal.xml http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/dbus.xml http://www.paldo.org/paldo/specs/udev.xml [2] http://www.paldo.org/rescue-cd-testing.iso (116 MB) -- Jürg Billeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
