On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 01:36:01PM +0100, Richard Lewis wrote:
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.
Ah, OK, I'd hunted around the menus and not found it, thanks. It seems to have the right boxes there ticked for "Removable Storage".
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.
Several processes:-
dbus 2026 1 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:09 dbus-daemon --system chris 2983 1 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session fvwm chris 2984 1 0 Aug17 ? 00:00:00 /bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 4 --print-address 8 --session
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"
Oh it does that alright, that's where I've been getting the information to mount it manually.