<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>USB automounting didn't work on my system until I added 'exec ck-launch-session window manager/desktop environment &' to .xinitrc. I'm using thunar as a file manager and would give dbus and/or hal errors before I added the 'ck-launch-session' command.<BR></DIV>
<DIV>I also had an issue with hal being started in the background. Openbox would start before hal had completed what it needed to do to work properly.</DIV>
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<B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Khalid Baheyeldin <kb@2bits.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> KWLUG discussion <kwlug-disc@kwlug.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Wed, January 6, 2010 8:48:35 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [kwlug-disc] Handling removable media<BR></FONT><BR>Perhaps it is your system.<BR><BR>Kubuntu just handles that automatically. Nothing special. Just plug in <BR>a USB drive and it shows up.<BR><BR>Are you still using Mandriva?<BR><BR>Try using the bootable CD of Ubuntu/Kubuntu 9.10 and see if the same media<BR>works on the same PC.<BR><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Insurance Squared Inc. <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:gcooke@insurancesquared.com">gcooke@insurancesquared.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<DIV>Perhaps it's just my system. I plug/unplug, nothing. I stand on my left leg with my right arm out like I'm trying to get good reception, plug and unplug, and it automounts. I can't seem to do anything consistently, so I figured it was something I was doing - but perhaps not.
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<DIV class=h5><BR><BR><BR>Robert P. J. Day wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE>On Wed, 6 Jan 2010, Insurance Squared Inc. wrote:
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<BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><PRE>How do folks handle removable media such as USB sticks or external
USB hard drives? Seems like I should be able to just plug in my USB
hard drive and have it automount, but in reality I get nonconsistent
results - can't detect/can't mount, all manner of shenanigans.
</PRE></BLOCKQUOTE><PRE> on fedora, those sorts of devices automount under /media, typically
under their volume name. never seen a problem.
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