https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=432340 Summary: Hotplug automount of external USB device fails Product: openSUSE 11.1 Version: Beta 2 Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Mobile Devices AssignedTo: zoz@novell.com ReportedBy: lee_matheson@hotmail.com QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- On openSUSE-11.1 beta2 the hotplug auto mounting of an external USB NTFS formatted hard drive failed to produce any dialog box. This was with the KDE-3.5.10 desktop. With openSUSE-11.0 (kde-3.5.9) on this PC, a dialog box does pop up, although on the 10.3 PC, the work around noted in http://en.opensuse.org/NTFS-3g page ( cd /sbin; sudo ln -s mount.ntfs-3g mount.ntfs ) was necessary. I have not (yet) tried that work around on the 11.1 beta2 PC. On the 11.1 beta2 partition, yyping "fdisk -l" indicated the internal hard drive on the PC had partitions hda1 to hda7 and the external USB drive was sda1. This was strange to me, as the hdax nomenclature does not appear to be consistent with the libata behaviour I had seen on openSUSE-10.3 and 11.0. A manual mount point at /home/lee/data was created on the openSUSE-11.1 beta2 test PC, and the external USB formatted drive was successfully manually mounted with: mount -t ntfs-3g -o rw,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=0022 /dev/sda1 /home/lee/data The external USB drive was then accessible with konqueror. lsusb gives this detail on the external USB drive: Bus 003 Device 010: ID 0bc2:3000 Seagate RSS LLC (Its a seagate free agent 500 GByte drive formatted as NTFS). dmesg output (illustrating unsuccessful automount, and then final successful manual mount effort) is located here: http://pastebin.be/14129 While manually mounting an external drive is second nature to an experienced Linux user, it is a difficult task for newbies and users not familiar with terminal commanding. I recommend this be fixed. I'll try a KDE-4.1.2 automount next. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.