Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome doesn't recognize removable media

[Marc Arens <dermarenz@yahoo.de>]

On Sun, 1 Feb 2009 09:10:30 -0800 (PST)
reQuiem23 <niklas.baumstark@gmail.com> wrote:

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> Florian Philipp-4 wrote:
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> > reQuiem23 schrieb:
> >> Hello all,
> >> 
> >> I emerged Gnome 2.24 and am now experiencing problems with
> >> removable media.
> >> It was not an upgrade, but a new install. Whenever i insert a CD
> >> or USB stick, the system recognizes it (as you can see in the
> >> output of tail /var/log/messages), but nautilus doesn't show a
> >> desktop icon or even auto-mounts the volume. Are there any log
> >> files (maybe from udev and nautilus) or settings i could check to
> >> investigate the problem? or is there
> >> anything special about 2.24 that i could have overread?
> >> 
> > 
> > Most likely either hald is not running or some gnome packages were 
> > emerged without the hal useflag.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> the hal USE-flag is enabled and all packages are compiled with it.
> hald is also running. is there any information (logs, for example)
> which would help to investigate the problem?

just a stupid idea ...
does "gconftool-2 -g /apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible" show true?
if not try setting it to true