Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-05 Thread Mick
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

[gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
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

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-04 Thread Mick
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

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Flash Drives automatic mounting breakage (Gnome)

2010-01-04 Thread Alan E. Davis
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.