[Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

Tue Jan 31 13:23:07 CET 2012

On 01/31/2012 06:52 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
+>
+> 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.
+>
+
+I've just found that if you right-click on the device notifier panel 
+icon and select Settings, then Removable Media, there is an option to 
+automount removable media which  is not checked.  I'll bet the default 
+for this changed with the latest KDE upload.  Still doesn't explain why 
+LXDE has problems, tho.
+