Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (888 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx> [01-03-11 11:49]:
> Marc Chamberlin said the following on 01/03/2011 12:25 AM:
> > I recently upgraded a number of modules on my openSuSE 11.2 system and
> >
> > have now lost the ability to plug in my USB external Passport hard drive
> > and have it automounted under /media like it use to...  What happened
> > and how do I recover this nifty feature?
> >
> > I have gone into the Device Notifier Settings and told it to Enable
> > automatic mounting of removable media as well as checked the
> > Automatically mount removable medial when attached. No joy.. The Device
> > Notifier does not even detect that the USB drive was plugged in. The
> > tool - lsusb shows it however, and I can manually mount it, a PITA...
>
> This sometimes happens to me.
> If you do a 'ps -ef' you might see things like
>
> hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0
>
> which means my CDROM isn't automounting.
> Or I reboot and it is.
> Sometimes it's USB, or my memory cards.
> I haven't figured this one out, just observed it.
>
> Which means its 'system' not KDE.

try as root:  rchald restart
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