[opensuse] Automount USB disk drive now fails
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... Internet searches resulted in similar complaints but most were a couple years back and so far have not yielded any joy... KDE version as reported by the Personal Settings dialog is Version 4.5.90 (4.6 RC1) Marc... -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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. -- A generation which ignores history has no past and no future. Robert Heinlein (1907 - 1988), The Notebooks of Lazurus Long -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com> [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 -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Patrick Shanahan said the following on 01/03/2011 12:10 PM:
* Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com> [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
hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled Oh? Where? -- Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors. Thomas H. Huxley -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com> [01-03-11 13:03]:
Patrick Shanahan said the following on 01/03/2011 12:10 PM:
try as root: rchald restart
hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled
Oh? Where?
?? pam? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
* Patrick Shanahan <paka@opensuse.org> [01-03-11 14:57]:
* Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com> [01-03-11 13:03]:
Patrick Shanahan said the following on 01/03/2011 12:10 PM:
try as root: rchald restart
hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled
Oh? Where?
?? pam?
But some local research as revealed something that might help you: <quote> Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 11:27:53 +0100 From: eddie <eddieleprince@sky.com> To: opensuse@opensuse.org Cc: "Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@telefonica.net> Subject: Re: [opensuse] Automount of USB Mailing-List: contact opensuse+help@opensuse.org; run by mlmmj Message-Id: <201005281127.53958.eddieleprince@sky.com>
On Tuesday, 2010-05-25 at 08:10 +0200, Allan Dreyer andersen wrote:
I need your help with a box I have. Since a while ago I automount in GNOME of USB doesn't work anymore. When I attach the USB disk this message appear:
--- Cannot mount USB Authentication is required ---
For all usb disks? For any user? Have you updated something?
Try: "polkit-action --reset-defaults org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable" "SuSEconfig" Hope that helps Eddie </qquote> possibly a policykit problem ?? -- Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA HOG # US1244711 http://wahoo.no-ip.org Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://counter.li.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 1/3/2011 9:10 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Anton Aylward<anton.aylward@rogers.com> [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 Thanks Patrick for the suggestion... I did restart the hal daemon but no joy still... Marc Chamberlin
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Marc Chamberlin said the following on 01/03/2011 07:48 PM:
Thanks Patrick for the suggestion... I did restart the hal daemon but no joy still...
Nor for me and my CDROM. -- It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error. --Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1950 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 1/3/2011 8:48 AM, Anton Aylward wrote:
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.
Well Anton, when I did a 'ps -ef' I saw - hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec) but no joy getting My Passport USB drive recognized and automounted... Marc Chamberlin -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Marc Chamberlin said the following on 01/03/2011 07:47 PM:
Well Anton, when I did a 'ps -ef' I saw - hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
So HAL recognises your CDROM - Good
but no joy getting My Passport USB drive recognized and automounted...
but it doesn't recognise my CRDOM and does recognise my USB If we combine our systems ... Nothing will be recognized :-( -- Tortoise: 'How many talking tortoises have you met?' Brutha: 'I don't know.' Tortoise: 'What d'you mean, you don't know?' Brutha: 'Well, they might all talk. They just might not say anything when I'm there.' -- "Small Gods", Terry Pratchett -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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