On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 04:46:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 20100326_151046, Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 03:31:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > I've been running Squeeze on my desktop computer for many weeks and > > > just today noticed that "Removable Drives and Media" is not available > > > in the Gnome Preferences menu. It is/was available in Lenny, but not > > > Squeeze, at least not for me. > > > > I've got it on an up-to-date installation of squeeze/Gnome, kernel 2.6.32-3 > > . > > > > Check Preferences > Main Menu and insure it is checked. > > > > > > > > Googling indicates this is a known issue, > > > > Specifics? > > Question on help sites dating back to 2008 with no answers. "What > happened to Removable Devices... " sort of thing. The problem was > that there was nothing specific, only questions on the topic. > > > > > > but seems to be ignored as > > > being somehow uninteresting to GUI users, or something. I can't find > > > anything that is Debian specific on this. > > > > > > > There is a lot of competition for "interesting" in testing. It is, after > > all, a release still under development. The assurances are in stable. > > > > > Help, please. > > > > I'd rather just confer. > > Fine. Talking to a trouble person can be a great help. > > > > > Do you even need it? Do these things not show up in Nautilus? > > I don't know Nautilus. What does it do? Maybe that is the answer. I'll > look. I have trouble with non-descriptive names. But OK. Here I go. ... > > > > > # aptitude install gnome-volume-manager > > This was mentioned in perhaps half the questions as perhaps being where > the fault lay. Food for thought. >
The menu item under preference is the gnome-volume-properties command (right click for properties on the item as listed in Preferences > Main Menu) which is a part of the gnome-volume-manager package (http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=gnome-volume-properties&mode=filename&suite=testing&arch=any). So at the console: $ gnome-volume-properties & Should get you the dialog. If it does, back to checking your menu configuration, Preferences > Main Menu. If it doesn't, there is no similar bug report (which means it really isn't a known issue in Debian). Ergo, if you are sure you have installed gnome-volume-manager, $ su -c "aptitude reinstall gnome-volume-manager" If that doesn't work, check your configs in aptitude to make sure it is handling dependencies correctly and/or drill down through the gnome-volume-manager listing in aptitude looking for dependency problems and/or looking for suggested and recommended packages that seem important. If all looks well in aptitude. And $ whereis gnome-volume-manager returns something like |free...@europa:~$ whereis gnome-volume-manager |gnome-volume-manager: /usr/lib/gnome-volume-manager |/usr/share/gnome-volume-manager |/ /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-volume-manager.1.gz |[1]+ Done gnome-volume-properties |free...@europa:~$ and it won't run from the console or appear on the menu, then-- **this is your opportunity** as a testing user, a tester, to give something back to Debian by duly filing a bug report. Have at it! There is no time to loose!! The push is on to get RCbugs down to a managable number before the big squeeze freeze. (300 RCbugs is the working target. See link below sig.) Good luck. -- Kind Regards, Freeman http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100327074709.ga9...@europa.office