Hi, I happily "converted" a whole friends family to SuSE :) So far, so good. They are good with it, and have no problems whatsoever. Of course, part of the "deal" was, that it'll be easily for me to help them and support their machine (remotely) :) So, this is good as well, I can and I do this. But a problem appeared, and because they are not "geeks", I asked them not to use the root account, and to let me deal with everything which needs root access. And ... they bought an mp3 player Sandisk. The problem is, that it is recognized by the system (I see in dmesg that it is assigned to sda1), but it does not create mount points, and does not mount it automatically. On my own 9.1 whenever I plug it in, it pops up konqi with the files, but it does not happen on the 9.2. machine. Suddenly today, after my friend plugged it, it have started the partitioner?!?!? I got desktop sharing, and logged in, entered the root password, and saw, that it just have created an entry in the list for /dev/sda and /dev/sda1, with no mount point and FAT16 filesystem. I added a mount point /media/mp3, and applied the changes. The result was, that /media/mp3 directory was created, but no mounting ocured. And no entry in fstab was created either. I played with sysconfig entries for hotplug, switching yes/no the _MOUNT entry, changing _MOUNT_TYPE to fstab and subfs. Nothing of these worked. I.e., unplugging/plugging the device works OK at kernel point of view (I see the messages in dmesg) but no mount points. And I do not want my friends to start using su, mount ... just for this. I guess, I miss something easy, but I do not know what. Any help will be highly appreciated. Cheers Sunny
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 15:07, Sunny wrote:
Hi, I happily "converted" a whole friends family to SuSE :) So far, so good. They are good with it, and have no problems whatsoever.
Of course, part of the "deal" was, that it'll be easily for me to help them and support their machine (remotely) :)
Give them manual usb mounts. usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noauto 0 0 /dev/sdb1 /media/FlashDrive vfat noauto,user 0 0 Then create an icon on the desktop to click and mount from there. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
On 5/9/05, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
Give them manual usb mounts.
usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/FlashDrive vfat noauto,user 0 0
Then create an icon on the desktop to click and mount from there. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/
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Thanks Carl, I'll try this as a temp solution, but I guess I started to be more curious where the thinks may broke. I can not find any documentation how that system works. Obviously, the hotplug system is OK, as it creates the device. But I can not find what is in charge to create the corresponding fstab entry, and to mount the device. So far it looks like a SuSE problem, not hardware problem. Maybe some script was not called when needed, or some service is not running, but I have no info to track it down. Any suggestions? Cheers Sunny
On 5/11/05, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:16, Sunny wrote:
Any suggestions?
Post your fstab to the list so we can all study it.
Here is the fstab. The problem is that the "thing" does not create a new entry when the mp3 player is plugged in. Using dmesg I can see that it is connected and /dev/sda1 is created. But after that the whole automounting does not happen. /dev/hda2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0 Cheers Sunny
Check the USB device in /media. It should be mounted and available there. If not it may appear on your desktop/ Sunny wrote:
On 5/11/05, Carl William Spitzer IV <cwsiv@myrealbox.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 14:16, Sunny wrote:
Any suggestions?
Post your fstab to the list so we can all study it.
Here is the fstab. The problem is that the "thing" does not create a new entry when the mp3 player is plugged in. Using dmesg I can see that it is connected and /dev/sda1 is created. But after that the whole automounting does not happen.
/dev/hda2 / ext3 acl,user_xattr 1 1 /dev/hda3 /boot ext2 acl,user_xattr 1 2 /dev/hda1 swap swap pri=42 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0 /dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=utf8 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
Cheers Sunny
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
On 5/11/05, Joseph Loo <jloo@acm.org> wrote:
Check the USB device in /media. It should be mounted and available there. If not it may appear on your desktop/
No, the entry in /media is never created. Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
Have you checked usbview to see if it show up there correctly. I run gnome and there are two programs that run a bit finicky, suse watcher and suse plugger. If you are runing gnome make sure it is laoded in the tray. If it does not, the program is not operating correctly. I found to make it work is to wait about 30 seconds after the system presents the login window. If you are running KDE I can not help you there. Sunny wrote:
On 5/11/05, Joseph Loo <jloo@acm.org> wrote:
Check the USB device in /media. It should be mounted and available there. If not it may appear on your desktop/
No, the entry in /media is never created.
Sunny
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
On Thursday 12 May 2005 22:13, Joseph Loo wrote:
Have you checked usbview to see if it show up there correctly. I run gnome and there are two programs that run a bit finicky, suse watcher and suse plugger. If you are runing gnome make sure it is laoded in the tray. If it does not, the program is not operating correctly. I found to make it work is to wait about 30 seconds after the system presents the login window. If you are running KDE I can not help you there.
Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
KDE here :( Sunny
I tried it on a user with KDE. The suseplugger should show up on the bottom left hand corner in your tray. I notice that KDE will now wipe out the entry in the /media. Why don't you try a new user that has has not files including the .files. Try and run a new KDE session on it. Maybe, there are some files that need to be corrected or created to make it work correctlu. I have found out after I started a KDE session my account I can get Kinternet to work properly/ Sunny wrote:
On Thursday 12 May 2005 22:13, Joseph Loo wrote:
Have you checked usbview to see if it show up there correctly. I run gnome and there are two programs that run a bit finicky, suse watcher and suse plugger. If you are runing gnome make sure it is laoded in the tray. If it does not, the program is not operating correctly. I found to make it work is to wait about 30 seconds after the system presents the login window. If you are running KDE I can not help you there.
Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
KDE here :( Sunny
-- Joseph Loo jloo@acm.org
On 5/16/05, Joseph Loo <jloo@acm.org> wrote:
I tried it on a user with KDE. The suseplugger should show up on the bottom left hand corner in your tray. I notice that KDE will now wipe out the entry in the /media.
Why don't you try a new user that has has not files including the .files. Try and run a new KDE session on it. Maybe, there are some files that need to be corrected or created to make it work correctlu. I have found out after I started a KDE session my account I can get Kinternet to work properly/
Hi Joseph, I'll give it a try, and I'll report back. Cheers Sunny -- Get Firefox http://www.spreadfirefox.com/?q=affiliates&id=10745&t=85
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