This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights.
When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the desktop. I can right-click on this icon to "eject" the filesystem, etc.
Eventually, though, for no obvious reason, this stops working and I no longer get an icon when I insert a USB device. The automount is still happening; I can still navigate to the device under /media with Nautilus, and I can still umount it from a shell as a nonprivileged user.
What process is supposed to be noticing the new mount and adding the icon? Any clues as to why it would stop doing so?
I too have had this problem. I didn't find a real solution but I did find a number of bugs in hald. Restarting that and/or running it in verbose mode might help narrow down your problem.
John.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights.
When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the desktop. I can right-click on this icon to "eject" the filesystem, etc.
Eventually, though, for no obvious reason, this stops working and I no longer get an icon when I insert a USB device. The automount is still happening; I can still navigate to the device under /media with Nautilus, and I can still umount it from a shell as a nonprivileged user.
What process is supposed to be noticing the new mount and adding the icon? Any clues as to why it would stop doing so? _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
On 8/27/07, John Newbigin jnewbigin@ict.swin.edu.au wrote:
I too have had this problem. I didn't find a real solution but I did find a number of bugs in hald. Restarting that and/or running it in verbose mode might help narrow down your problem.
Restarting it does not seem to have had any useful effect.
I tend to suspect gnome-volume-manager ...