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Le Wednesday 05 March 2008 17:27:46 Mark David Dumlao, vous avez écrit :
> Hi guys
>
> I'm using GNOME on gentoo and I like the behavior where usb drives will pop
> up a nautilus window
> on plugin.
>
> I always expected this behavior on CDs as well, but for some reason, I only
> noticed today
> (after quite a while of using, since I haven't plugged in a CD for quite a
> while) that it doesn't
> work.
>
> So I've been investigating a bit on some things to check.
> 1) my cdrom mount point.
> the cdrom mount point is owned by root.cdrom and has
> rwx,rx,- permisions
>
> All relevant users are members of the root.cdrom group.
>
> however this seems to me completely irrelevant since as
> far as i recall, gnome-volume-manager should automatically
> just create a mount point for the cdrom.
>
> 2) my fstab entry
> I've tried without an fstab entry, and with.  When I work with
> an entry, it looks like this:
>
>
> /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 users,noauto 0 0
>
> again, this looks irrelevant to me since my alternate system (ubuntu)
> uses almost the same fstab with just root partitions switched around
> and the automount seems to work fine.
>
> 3) plugdev membership.
> all relevant users are members of plugdev.
> plugdev seems to properly create USB devices when things are
> pluggied in.
>
> 4) device file
> my hard disks are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb
> my cdrom is in /dev/hdb
> cdrom permissions give me
>
> markd@trixie:~$ ls /dev/hdb -l
> brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 64 Mar  6  2008 /dev/hdb
>
> this is i think statically created by udev.
>
> 5) kernel and stuff
> markd@trixie:~$ uname -r
> 2.6.23-gentoo-r3
>
> 6) gnome-volume-manager -d no
> (runs gnome-volume-manager in the foreground)
> is completely silent.
>
> 7) The CDs themselves.
> They seem to work when I do a mount from the command line.
>
> Is there anything else I need to check?  I want the cdrom to pop up
> correctly.
>
> On a tangent, i noticed that all my partitions are appearing in
> the nautilus sidebar bookmarks and also my desktop.  I have quite
> a number of partitions, so this isn't the behavior I expect.  When I
> click my Places menu, I notice that my partitions are listed in removable
> media.  How do I take them out?
> --
> thing.