On Wednesday 03 September 2008 13:18:15 Chris G wrote:
As Richard said yesterday, gnome-volume-manager.
I ran that yesterday and nothing *appeared* to happen. It's still happily running. Should it automatically spot USB mass storage devices being plugged in and mount them for you or do I need to do something to configure it or make it do something?
Its configuration options are in System > Preferences > Removable Drives and Media.
It probably uses dbus. Check that's running:
$ ps x | grep dbus
If you don't see any processes apart from the ps one then you'll need to find out why dbus isn't running.
Also check that the kernel notices you plug the device in. Plug it in, give it a few seconds, and check:
$ sudo tail -20 /var/log/messages
and you should see several lines regarding your device. Including something like:
"sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk"
(That assumes you can sudo tail. If not, you could become root and examine /var/log/messages.)
Cheers, Richard