On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 12:19 +0200, Rasmus Back wrote: > Hi. > > In FC3 plugging in a USB thumbdrive worked automagically, the voulme > would just show up on my desktop. I did a clean install of FC4 and now > the same thumbdrive doesn't show up at all. I started hald in verbose > mode, see attached log file for details. Apparently the thumbdrive is > recognized and attached to /dev/sdc, but the final step of mounting it > is not performed. I have checked the option in gnome-volume-manager to > automatically mount removable media. > > Are my problems related to the "no runnable > /etc/hotplug/*_device.agent is installed" messages? Hotplug owns > /etc/hotplug and I can't think of any rpms that could be missing. > Googling around there seems to be lots of people with related > problems, but those problems are usually caused by the kernel not > recognizing the drive at all. I can manually mount the thumbdrive, but > then the contents are owned by root and it's a hassle to copy stuff > over. I have a LaCie d2 that has the same problems (regardless of if I > use USB of firewire). > > Thanks, > Rasmus We had a thread on this last week..... It sounds like a line is being added to /etc/fstab to represent your thumbdrive? That is what udev/hald/hotplug are responsible for..... If there is no line being added to /etc/fstab then we would troubleshoot there.... Actually mounting it is a different set of programs. Are you GUI? Are you running Gnome or KDE? The GUI environments have X clients that are monitoring the devices being added and "may" perform the mount. In Gnome this is controlled in Desktop-Preferences-Removable Drives and Media. I do not know where it is in KDE (and is perhaps more problematic) and that is part of what last week's thread was talking about.... HTH, --Rob
