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Automounting fails on xfce

Running Slackware 12.2 with Xfce 4.4.3. For device mounting I have dbus, hal, thunar-volman and pmount. Neither do USB devices or CD/DVD discs are autmounted.

/etc/fstab

Code:

/dev/sda2        swap            swap        defaults        0  0

/dev/sda1        /                ext3        defaults        1  1

/dev/sda3        /home            ext3        defaults        1  2

#/dev/cdrom      /mnt/cdrom      auto        noauto,owner,ro  0  0

#/dev/fd0        /mnt/floppy      auto        noauto,owner    0  0

devpts          /dev/pts        devpts      gid=5,mode=620  0  0

proc            /proc            proc        defaults        0  0

tmpfs            /dev/shm        tmpfs      defaults        0  0

/etc/group

Code:

cat /etc/group | grep esters

lp:!:7:lp,esters

audio:x:17:root,esters

video:x:18:root,esters

cdrom:x:19:root,esters

plugdev:x:83:root,esters

power:!:84:esters

users:!:100:esters

When I plug in an ipod, lshal -m says

Code:

Start monitoring devicelist:

-------------------------------------------------

04:10:10.757: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8 added

04:10:10.928: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8_if0 added

04:10:10.936: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8_usbraw added

04:10:10.949: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8_if0_scsi_host added

04:10:15.757: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8_if0_scsi_host_0 added

04:10:15.764: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8_if0_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0 added

04:10:15.832: usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8_if0_scsi_host_0_scsi_device_lun0_scsi_generic added

And in the mean time thunar-volman gives this

Code:

thunar-volman: No property info.capabilities on device with id /org/freedesktop/hal/devices/usb_device_5ac_1260_000A270019A4A4F8

I'm running hal and dbus with stock config files. Thanks.

Try xfce4-mount-plugin from slackbuilds.org. xfce4-volstatus-icon is useful as well.

Brian

Thanks for the suggestions BCarey but none of them work :( I get the thunar-volman No property info.capabilities on device with id message every time I plug in an removable USB device.

Have you listed the devices you want pmount to handle in pmount.allow?

There's a note on the slackbuilds.org page for pmount:

Quote:

NOTE: It seems that detection of removable devices via hal no longer
works correctly, and pmount also seems unmaintained as of right now.
You should be able to populate /etc/pmount.allow with a list of your
removable devices to work around it; see pmount's man page for more
detailed information.

Thanks for the tip wadsworth, but it doesn't work :<

dmesg

Code:

usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6

usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice

scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=13fe, idProduct=1f00

usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3

usb 1-2: Product: DataTraveler 2.0

usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Kingston

usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 5B871100013B

usb-storage: device found at 6

usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

fdisk -l

Code:

Disk /dev/sdd: 1000 MB, 1000341504 bytes

16 heads, 32 sectors/track, 3816 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 512 * 512 = 262144 bytes

Disk identifier: 0x00000000



  Device Boot      Start        End      Blocks  Id  System

/dev/sdd1              1        3816      976880    e  W95 FAT16 (LBA)

pmount -d /dev/sdd1

Code:

resolved /dev/sdd1 to device /dev/sdd1

Checking for device '/dev/sdd1' in '/etc/fstab'

mount point to be used: /media/sdd1

no iocharset given, current locale encoding is UTF-8

locale encoding uses UTF-8, setting iocharset to 'utf8'

Cleaning lock directory /var/lock/pmount_dev_sdd1

Checking for device '/dev/sdd1' in '/etc/mtab'

Checking for device '/dev/sdd1' in '/proc/mounts'

device_whitelist: checking /etc/pmount.allow...

device_whitlisted(): nothing matched, returning 0

find_sysfs_device: looking for sysfs directory for device 8:49

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram0 (1:0)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram1 (1:1)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram2 (1:2)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram3 (1:3)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram4 (1:4)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram5 (1:5)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram6 (1:6)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram7 (1:7)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram8 (1:8)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram9 (1:9)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram10 (1:10)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram11 (1:11)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram12 (1:12)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram13 (1:13)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram14 (1:14)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/ram15 (1:15)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop0 (7:0)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop1 (7:1)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop2 (7:2)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop3 (7:3)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop4 (7:4)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop5 (7:5)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop6 (7:6)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/loop7 (7:7)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/hda (3:0)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/hdb (3:64)

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/sda (8:0)

find_sysfs_device: major device numbers match

find_sysfs_device: minor device numbers do not match, checking partitions...

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:0

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:1

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:2

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:3

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/sdb (8:16)

find_sysfs_device: major device numbers match

find_sysfs_device: minor device numbers do not match, checking partitions...

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:16

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:17

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:18

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/sdc (8:32)

find_sysfs_device: major device numbers match

find_sysfs_device: minor device numbers do not match, checking partitions...

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:32

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:33

find_sysfs_device: checking whether /dev/sdd1 is on /sys/block/sdd (8:48)

find_sysfs_device: major device numbers match

find_sysfs_device: minor device numbers do not match, checking partitions...

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:48

find_sysfs_device: checking whether device /dev/sdd1 matches partition 8:49

find_sysfs_device: -> partition matches, belongs to block device /sys/block/sdd

device_removable: could not find a sysfs device for /dev/sdd1

Error: device /dev/sdd1 is not removable

policy check failed

Could there be a problem with the physical drive itself? Could you try a different USB key?

Brian

No, because I plugged the key into a laptop and it worked without problems.

Is your user in the plugdev gorup?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ilgar (Post 3393464)

Is your user in the plugdev gorup?

Yes

groups esters
esters : users lp audio video cdrom plugdev power

Do you see any files in the subdirectories of /etc/hal/fdi/ ? Any rules that disable polling?

From the pmount SBo README:

Code:

NOTE: It seems that detection of removable devices via hal no longer

works correctly, and pmount also seems unmaintained as of right now.

You should be able to populate /etc/pmount.allow with a list of your

removable devices to work around it; see pmount's man page for more

detailed information.

http://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/1.../pmount/README

Have you enabled the automounting in thunar Preferences? Also, pmount shouldn't be necessary to do this, anyway. Maybe you should remove it.

Brian

If I remember correctly, for thunar itself to handle automounting you need to autostart it with XFCE. Create a .desktop file for thunar to ~/.config/autostart/ and call it thunar.desktop (BTW most filemanagers have an annoying habit of hiding the .desktop extension on a properly formed .desktop file).

This is the contents of mine:

Code:

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=thunar

Comment=Needed for automounting

Exec=thunar --daemon

StartupNotify=false

Terminal=false

Hidden=false

Edit: copying the thunar.desktop file there and changing the command to thunar --daemon should work too.

I'm using XFCE, but automounting works without starting Thunar at login. Just install the Thunar-volman-plugin and from Thunar preferences->Advanced, enable volume management (and configure the options). No other software is needed.

Thanks for the advice, but I ditched Slackware.