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Old 05-05-2005, 03:35 AM   #1
salahuddin_66
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gnome desktop problem


hello

i use gnome and kde

some days ago while writing cd in k3b my /bin/mount and /bin/umount permission has changed and so that others can't mount and umount the cdrom and win drives


then i give chmod u+s /bin/mount and umount
then it fix but from now

in gnome

when i mount drives it did not shows on the desktop. like when i mount d and c it shows one d and the c mount but did not show in desktop and if i give umount right click on the hdd icon of d it umount correctly and still stay in the desktop. and then i wanna mount it again it open a blank windows.


i just create new home directory but the problem did not fix and also

dpkg-reconfigure -a

thanx

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Old 06-23-2005, 01:31 PM   #2
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salahuddin_66

in my experience (KNOPPIX, UBUNTU and Fedora Core), the icons behave differntly. KNOPPIX upon boot has icons for all HD partiitons and I believe pops an icon for the CD rom mount. UBUNTU shows the CD drive icon when you load a CD, but does not show HD partition icons on the desktop. Fedora Core shows neither, you have to navigate through file management window.

I have 2 unsuccessful attempts with full Debian installs(not Live CD's), so I can only offer you this advice.

First mount the drives:
Figure out how to, upon boot, run commands like: mount [type] /dev/hda1(drive files hda2...) /bin/mount/hda1(mount points if don't exist, you will have to create them). Till then just try this in the terminal program.

Next:
Finding your Desktop directory in /usr(only if you want yourself to see these mounted drives and no one else) directory, and add directories for all drives and CDRom (mkdir /usr/../desktop/xxx). Then link them to /bin/mount/.. (hda1, hda2.., cdrom) wherever you mounted the drives with the following command (ln [option] /mnt/mount/hda1(mount point)).

As far as your statement about after umount you try to execute that file(icon) again and this time the HD files are missing. If I understood you correctly, then that is exactly what is supposed to happen. Once you umount, you break the ties to the mount point. You have to do the (mount /dev/hda1 /bin/mount/hda1) command again. Without it, when you unmounted, the directory does not know what it is looking for (thus blank screen).

Hope this helps
 
  


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