On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 00:05:44 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote: >>>> On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote: >>>>> Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put >>>>> an >>>>> icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that >>>>> would then mount it to /media >>>>> >>>>> hal still creates /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but I can't see it as a mounted >>>>> file system.
[...] >> I think the next thing to try is what happens if your run (as your >> normal user) >> >> pmount-hal /dev/sda1 >> >> (Change /dev/sda1 to the correct device node of the filesystem.) If this >> works without errors, run "mount" to see which mount point was chosen. >> Also check if you can unmount the stick (again as your normal user) with >> >> pumount /dev/sda1 > > That's good. My user can mount it with pmount-hal at /media/adam for one > stick, and /media/usbstick for another, and pumount it again. So that is > probably the command that Thunar issues. > > It also gives me this message: > > libhal-storage.c 1401 : INFO: called LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR but dbusError > was not set. > process 23617: Applications must not close shared connections - see > dbus_connection_close() docs. This is a bug in the application. > > Perhaps this is an indication that there's something wrong still which > prevents the system from executing pmount-hal automatically. It seems that you are not the only one having this problem, and it is not limited to thunar: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406390 Do you have a completely up-to-date system? (kernel, udev, hal, libhal1, libhal-storage1, dbus, libdbus-*) -- Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]