[Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Frank Griffin at 31/01/12 13:32 did gyre and gimble:
> On 01/31/2012 07:23 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
> There is no joy in Mudville: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4361

I suspect the problem is somewhere in gvfs or below. I believe LXDE uses
gvfs so this would explain why both it and GNOME are affected..

Certainly running:
gvfs-mount -oi

does not show any events when plugging/unplugging a USB disk.

Something to investigate - I don't really have time right now.

Col

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