On 07/08/2013 11:07 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jul 2013 22:36:28 -0700 > Dale Snell <[email protected]> dijo: > >> The lsblk(8) command should tell you what the device name is. I >> _think_ Palimpsest will, too, if you want a GUI command. (It's >> been a long time since I used it.) > > Brilliant! Turns out it was SDE1. Now happily mounted. >
/var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog will also have that info. (Hey whatcha expect from a Slackware guy?) >>> More importantly, why would my desktop suddenly demand permission to >>> mount this device? >> >> I don't know. Has anything been changed recently? Software >> upgrades can be problematic at times. > > There have been no upgrades for a long time. However, I have been > having issues with Xfce on my laptop. There is a panel widget "Places" > that I have come to rely on. On my laptop (where mounting the Patriot > drive is not a problem) the Places widget insisted on opening locations > with Nautilus instead of the Xfce default, Thunar. In desperation I > recently uninstalled Nautilus, which caused Places to open locations > with Konqueror (KDE is also installed on this computer, although I > never log in to it). The problem may be related to these actions, but > why that should affect the desktop computer is beyond me. > _______________________________________________ Sounds like either something changed you user's permissions for hotplugging, or, changed a udev rule. Typically, to automount USB drives, you need to be part of the 'plugdev' group. There is also a battle over udisk vs udisk2 so check to make sure these don't conflict, corrupted, or were changed: /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks.rules /lib/udev/rules.d/80-udisks2.rules I don't use any widgets but do run Xfce 4.10. Thunar sees the automounted USB drives just fine. Have fun. Ed _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
