[gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[sean]

Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager
in place and that plugin is enabled.

For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged
in. I am not sure when this stopped working.

My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine.
If I "lsusb" I can see the flash drive listed when inserted.

I have tried re-emerging various items hoping that it would bring it
back to life. Obviously no luck since I am posting.

Would anyone have any ideas on a possible cause and cure?

			Thanks in advanced,
			Sean

Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[Hung Dang]

Are you in usb and plugdev group?
If your are not then add your user to these groups then check if you can
mount USB automatically or not.

Hung

sean wrote:
> Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager
> in place and that plugin is enabled.
>
> For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged
> in. I am not sure when this stopped working.
>
> My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine.
> If I "lsusb" I can see the flash drive listed when inserted.
>
> I have tried re-emerging various items hoping that it would bring it
> back to life. Obviously no luck since I am posting.
>
> Would anyone have any ideas on a possible cause and cure?
>
> 			Thanks in advanced,
> 			Sean
>
>
>   

Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[sean]

Hung Dang wrote:
> Are you in usb and plugdev group?
> If your are not then add your user to these groups then check if you can
> mount USB automatically or not.
> 
> Hung
> 

Hung,

	Yes, I am in both groups.

	Thanks
	Sean

Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[Gmail]

Since your USB devices work fine I guest hald shoud be start at boot
level. Could your mount your USB flash drive manually?

Hung

sean wrote:
> Hung Dang wrote:
>   
>> Are you in usb and plugdev group?
>> If your are not then add your user to these groups then check if you can
>> mount USB automatically or not.
>>
>> Hung
>>
>>     
>
> Hung,
>
> 	Yes, I am in both groups.
>
> 	Thanks
> 	Sean
>
>   

Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[sean]

Gmail wrote:
> Since your USB devices work fine I guest hald shoud be start at boot
> level. Could your mount your USB flash drive manually?
> 
> Hung

I have not even been able identify it in dev.
sda 1, 2, and 3 are my partitions, and all else I see is sdb, without
any further partitions.

[gentoo-amd64] Re: USB auto mounting

[Duncan]

sean posted on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:03:14 -0500 as excerpted:

> Using Windowmaker with Thunar as a file manager, with the volume manager
> in place and that plugin is enabled.
> 
> For some reason Thunar is now not seeing any USB device when plugged in.
> I am not sure when this stopped working.
> 
> My USB devices of keyboard, trackball, and webcam are working fine. If I
> "lsusb" I can see the flash drive listed when inserted.
> 
> I have tried re-emerging various items hoping that it would bring it
> back to life. Obviously no luck since I am posting.
> 
> Would anyone have any ideas on a possible cause and cure?

I'm a kde guy, no thunar experience here, but that sounds very much like 
a hal problem to me.  That's the area I'd investigate.

Hal can be tough to troubleshoot and fix.  I've had a taste of that 
myself when I switched to the hal based xorg input management using 
evdev.  

There is the lshal (list hal) command.  Running that as your normal user 
from a terminal window should spit out a whole bunch of info.  I haven't 
looked at mine in detail, but saw at the bottom 155 devices and there's 
several lines of info about each, so you can imagine how long the output 
was.  If that produces an error, you know you're on the right track.

Meanwhile, someone else mentioned the plugdev and usb groups, but you 
already checked that.  

Then there's the "general gentoo troubleshooting question" that nobody 
has mentioned yet:  Have you run a revdep-rebuild recently?  What were 
the results?  Note that if you don't run it regularly, you may have quite 
a list of rebuilds to complete.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] USB auto mounting

[sean]

Well I found the problem, and the fix.

My kernel config was no longer supporting card readers.
Why, I do not know how, perhaps some upgrade caused it?

Here is a link too show the options I needed to enable,
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SD_and_MMC_card_readers
Just the basic section was all that was needed.
I also added in the Multi USB Card Readers section as well.

Thanks to all that replied.

	Have Fun,
	Sean

[gentoo-amd64] Re: USB auto mounting

[Duncan]

sean posted on Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:02:33 -0500 as excerpted:

> Well I found the problem, and the fix.
> 
> My kernel config was no longer supporting card readers. Why, I do not
> know how, perhaps some upgrade caused it?
> 
> Here is a link too show the options I needed to enable,
> http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/SD_and_MMC_card_readers Just the basic
> section was all that was needed. I also added in the Multi USB Card
> Readers section as well.

Thanks for the fix report! =:^)

SD/MMC cards, I was thinking standard USB thumb-drives.  I looked back at 
your initial post and followups (to this one) and didn't see anything 
about a sd/mmc card reader, only usb device, and the auto mounting in the 
title, thus indicating a filesystem, but nothing indicating you meant 
cards, and I was thinking thumbdrives and portable disks[1].  If you'd 
mentioned that it was a card reader, perhaps someone could have set you 
on the right path a bit sooner.

---
[1] FWIW, I recently found a 1TB/931TiB USB external disk on sale at 
Fry's Electronics for $80!  That's lower than pricewatch.com's listings!  
I jumped on it and grabbed one, and now have a nice external backup that 
allowed me to reorganize my quad-spindle 300GB/279GiB per-spindle SATA 
based md/RAID, a job I just finished a couple days ago.  So I have 
portable USB disks on the brain, ATM. =:^)

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