[Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

Tue Jan 31 12:52:06 CET 2012

On 01/31/2012 04:33 AM, Robert Fox wrote:
+> On Tue, 2012-01-31 at 10:28 +0100, JA Magallón wrote:
+>> Hi all...
+>>
+>> Since some time ago, automounting of media (USB, CD) seems gone nuts.
+>> How can I debug this ?
+>> First of all, I have udisks2 installed, not udisks, even if the later
+>> is also in the repos. I suppose newer version supersedes it, as it is
+>> required by gnome-disk-utility (formerly palimpsest).
+>>
+> I can confirm this under Gnome - but under KDE auto-mounting seems to
+> work.
+>
+> Cheers, R.Fox
+
+There was a discussion about this on the thread "mkinitrd and Mageia2".  
+As near as I can figure, there used to be something, maybe 
+GNOME-related, that kicked in for LXDE and GNOME apps run under KDE and 
+automounted removable disks.  It stopped doing this a week or so ago.
+
+KDE recognizes the volume availability, but does not automount the 
+volume unless you choose some action from the device notification popup 
+that it (KDE) realizes requires it, e. g. Dolphin (or maybe Dolphin does 
+the automount).
+
+The result is that (at least) LXDE and GNOME apps under KDE which 
+require mounted volumes like brasero or anything under wine no longer 
+work.  Wine apps stopped working under KDE a while ago, probably for 
+this reason, and probably because wine doesn't "trigger" whatever GNOME 
+apps under KDE were triggering.
+