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From: cypherstrong <cypherstrong@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:43:52
Message-Id: 200803051743.32359.cypherstrong@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gnome CD automount fails without error by Mark David Dumlao
1 Could you go on Desktop / Preferences / Removable Drives and Media ???
2
3 Check any option there, and try again
4
5 Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 17:27:46 Mark David Dumlao, vous avez écrit :
6 > Hi guys
7 >
8 > I'm using GNOME on gentoo and I like the behavior where usb drives will pop
9 > up a nautilus window
10 > on plugin.
11 >
12 > I always expected this behavior on CDs as well, but for some reason, I only
13 > noticed today
14 > (after quite a while of using, since I haven't plugged in a CD for quite a
15 > while) that it doesn't
16 > work.
17 >
18 > So I've been investigating a bit on some things to check.
19 > 1) my cdrom mount point.
20 > the cdrom mount point is owned by root.cdrom and has
21 > rwx,rx,- permisions
22 >
23 > All relevant users are members of the root.cdrom group.
24 >
25 > however this seems to me completely irrelevant since as
26 > far as i recall, gnome-volume-manager should automatically
27 > just create a mount point for the cdrom.
28 >
29 > 2) my fstab entry
30 > I've tried without an fstab entry, and with. When I work with
31 > an entry, it looks like this:
32 >
33 >
34 > /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 users,noauto 0 0
35 >
36 > again, this looks irrelevant to me since my alternate system (ubuntu)
37 > uses almost the same fstab with just root partitions switched around
38 > and the automount seems to work fine.
39 >
40 > 3) plugdev membership.
41 > all relevant users are members of plugdev.
42 > plugdev seems to properly create USB devices when things are
43 > pluggied in.
44 >
45 > 4) device file
46 > my hard disks are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
47 > my cdrom is in /dev/hdb
48 > cdrom permissions give me
49 >
50 > markd@trixie:~$ ls /dev/hdb -l
51 > brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 64 Mar 6 2008 /dev/hdb
52 >
53 > this is i think statically created by udev.
54 >
55 > 5) kernel and stuff
56 > markd@trixie:~$ uname -r
57 > 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
58 >
59 > 6) gnome-volume-manager -d no
60 > (runs gnome-volume-manager in the foreground)
61 > is completely silent.
62 >
63 > 7) The CDs themselves.
64 > They seem to work when I do a mount from the command line.
65 >
66 > Is there anything else I need to check? I want the cdrom to pop up
67 > correctly.
68 >
69 > On a tangent, i noticed that all my partitions are appearing in
70 > the nautilus sidebar bookmarks and also my desktop. I have quite
71 > a number of partitions, so this isn't the behavior I expect. When I
72 > click my Places menu, I notice that my partitions are listed in removable
73 > media. How do I take them out?
74 > --
75 > thing.

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