On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 09:06:50PM -0500, H. S. wrote: > I am using Sarge with a kernel 2.6.7-1-686. I have udev and hotplug and > gnome-volume-manager. However, I do not get an icon automatically when I > plug in a USB stick. In the other two machines in my home LAN, in which > I am running Sid, I can get the icon consistently. > > In this machine, running Sarge, I set up udev the same way as in other > machines. Sometimes (rarely) when I plug in the USB stick I do get the > icon on the desktop and it gets automatically mounted. Also, this hasn't > happened for a few days now. Usually, it happens only if I insert the > USB stick for the first time after reboot. > > But syslog shows that it sees USB insertion and de-pluggin events > consistently. I also get the links made in /dev as I have specified in > udev rules files for the USB stick I have. The only thing that does not > happens is that the icon does not appear on the desk and it does not get > mounted automatically (just as if gnome-volumen-manager is not seeing > the stick). I have tried it in 2.6.9 kernel as well, but it doesn't work > there even. Any idea what I am missing here? > I am using usbmount (not in debian, but available) package. It neatly mounts the device under /media/usb[0-7]. It is working very well on all my sarge machines. Why not give it a try?
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