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Automount USB disk drive now fails
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Marc Chamberlin
2011-01-03 05:25:29 UTC
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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)

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Patrick Shanahan
2011-01-03 17:10:49 UTC
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Post by Marc Chamberlin
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
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Anton Aylward
2011-01-03 18:02:28 UTC
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Post by Patrick Shanahan
Post by Marc Chamberlin
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?
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Anton Aylward
2011-01-03 16:48:21 UTC
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Post by Marc Chamberlin
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.
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Patrick Shanahan
2011-01-03 20:06:17 UTC
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Post by Anton Aylward
Post by Patrick Shanahan
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 <***@sky.com>
To: ***@opensuse.org
Cc: "Carlos E. R." <***@telefonica.net>
Subject: Re: [opensuse] Automount of USB
Post by Anton Aylward
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
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Cannot mount USB
Authentication is required
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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 ??
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Marc Chamberlin
2011-01-04 00:47:08 UTC
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Post by Marc Chamberlin
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...

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Patrick Shanahan
2011-01-03 19:55:01 UTC
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Post by Anton Aylward
Post by Patrick Shanahan
try as root: rchald restart
hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled
Oh? Where?
?? pam?
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Anton Aylward
2011-01-04 01:02:35 UTC
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Thanks Patrick for the suggestion... I did restart the hal daemon but no
joy still...
Nor for me and my CDROM.
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Marc Chamberlin
2011-01-04 00:48:43 UTC
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Post by Patrick Shanahan
Post by Marc Chamberlin
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
2011-01-04 00:42:10 UTC
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Post by Marc Chamberlin
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)
This could well be a bug in the new udev backend for KDE 4.6 that replaced
hal, please make a bug report for this.

Will

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As requested Will... Bug #662172 Marc Chamberlin
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Anton Aylward
2011-01-04 01:01:22 UTC
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Post by Marc Chamberlin
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
Post by Marc Chamberlin
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 :-(
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