automount not working for usb devices

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dodo1122 · Post by **dodo1122** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:14 pm

Hi,

I have a problem with automounting in both xfce and kde. When i insert a cd it mounts it, but when i insert in a pendrive, ipod or anything else, it doesnt mount it automatically. On xfce, i get an error that i dont have a permission to mount devices, but im in plugdev and cdrom group (so is hal). I tried reinstalling hal, dbus, udev, but it does not help at all.

here is dmesg after inserting in an ipod:

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usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Device driver target8:0:0 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Apple    iPod             1.62 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
SCSI device sdb: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sdb: 58605120 512-byte hdwr sectors (30006 MB)
sdb: Write Protect is off
sdb: Mode Sense: 68 00 00 08
sdb: assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1 sdb2
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sdb
sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
Device driver target8:0:1 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver target8:0:2 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver target8:0:3 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver target8:0:4 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver target8:0:5 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver target8:0:6 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
Device driver target8:0:7 lacks bus and class support for being resumed.
usb-storage: device scan complete

I havent recompiled my kernel in a while, so thats not it, as it has worked before.

flags and versions of hal, dbus and udev:

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[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.9-r1  USE="acpi crypt disk-partition -debug -dell -doc -pcmcia (-selinux)" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/dbus-1.0.2-r2  USE="X -debug -doc (-selinux)" 0 kB 
[ebuild   R   ] sys-fs/udev-112  USE="(-selinux)" 0 kB

emerge --info:

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Portage 2.1.2.9 (default-linux/x86/2007.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.5-r3, 2.6.21-viper1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.21-viper1 i686 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Timestamp of tree: Tue, 05 Jun 2007 20:30:01 +0000
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.33-r1
dev-lang/python:     2.4.4-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.16
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.23b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.21
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks metadata-transfer parallel-fetch sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.belnet.be/mirror/rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages --filter=H_**/files/digest-*"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage/local/layman/sarven /usr/local/portage/xeffects/trunk /usr/local/portage/xeffects/experimental /usr/local/portage/nesl247 /usr/local/portage /usr/portage/local/layman/vmware"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext 7zip X a52 aac aalib accessibility acl acpi aiglx alsa amarok ass audiofile berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli color-console cracklib crypt crypto_openssl cups dbus divx dri dts dvd dvdnav dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode evo exif exo extrafilters extras fam fat fbcon ffmpeg firefox flac fontconfig fortran freetype gd gdbm ghostscript gif glade glitz glut gmedia gpm gtk gtk2 hal iconv imagemagick imlib ipod ipv6 isdnlog jabber jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kerberos ldap libg++ mad matroska midi mikmod mmx mmxext mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap musicbrainz ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs nvidia ogg openal opengl openmp pam panel-plugin pcre pdf perl plugin png ppds pppd python qt qt3 qt3compatibility qt3support quicktime rar readline real reflection sdl session slang sndfile spell spl sse sse2 ssl startup-notification subtitles subversion svg svga svn symlink tcpd tcpl theora threads thumbnail thunar thunar-vfs tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode unrar unzip usb vcd vidix visualization vorbis win32codecs wma wmf wmp wxwindows x264 x86 xcomposite xml xorg xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ca0106" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" CAMERAS="canon" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="mouse keyboard" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

any help would be greatly appreciated,

dodo

erik258 · Post by **erik258** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:16 pm

will you please post /etc/fstab ?

dodo1122 · Post by **dodo1122** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:19 pm

here it is:

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# NOTE: If your BOOT partition is ReiserFS, add the notail option to opts.
/dev/sda5               /               ext3            noatime         0 1
/dev/sda2               none            swap            sw              0 0
/dev/sda3               /debian         ext3            noatime         0 0
/dev/hda1               /music          ext3            noatime         0 0
/dev/sda1               /windows        ntfs-3g          noatime         0 0

# NOTE: The next line is critical for boot!
proc                    /proc           proc            defaults        0 0

# glibc 2.2 and above expects tmpfs to be mounted at /dev/shm for 
# POSIX shared memory (shm_open, shm_unlink).
# (tmpfs is a dynamically expandable/shrinkable ramdisk, and will
#  use almost no memory if not populated with files)
shm                     /dev/shm        tmpfs           nodev,nosuid,noexec    0 0

dodo

erik258 · Post by **erik258** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:24 pm

are you in the usb group? A list of groups to be found at /etc/group might be helpful in identifying other groups of which you must be a part.

I asked for fstab because I know you can allow things to be mounted by users in there, but you don't have the cdrom drive listed, so that must not be relevant.

dodo1122 · Post by **dodo1122** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 4:26 pm

i was in usb group, but i deleted myself from it this morning, hoping it could fix this problem

Unfortunately, it didnt.

EDIT:
im in the following groups: disk, wheel, cdrom, video, usb, users, plugdev, vmware, games.

dodo

dodo1122 · Post by **dodo1122** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:24 pm

one more thing, when i try to mount it under root (kdesu thunar, then clicking on mount volume), i get the same error that i do not have permission to mount it.

dodo

Roman_Gruber · Post by **Roman_Gruber** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 12:27 am

dodo1122 wrote:one more thing, when i try to mount it under root (kdesu thunar, then clicking on mount volume), i get the same error that i do not have permission to mount it.

dodo

hi

I use gnome 2.18. Since I have changed to new hal it works under gnome. Maybe this will also do it for you!

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[I] sys-apps/hal
     Available versions:  0.5.7.1-r3 (~)0.5.7.1-r5 (~)0.5.9 (~)0.5.9-r1 {acpi crypt debug dell disk-partition dmi doc kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux pcmcia selinux}
     Installed versions:  0.5.9-r1(17:14:31 04/28/07)(acpi crypt -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc -kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux pcmcia -selinux)
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
     Description:         Hardware Abstraction Layer

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notebook roman #

dodo1122 · Post by **dodo1122** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:47 pm

tw04l124 wrote:
dodo1122 wrote:one more thing, when i try to mount it under root (kdesu thunar, then clicking on mount volume), i get the same error that i do not have permission to mount it.

dodo
hi

I use gnome 2.18. Since I have changed to new hal it works under gnome. Maybe this will also do it for you!
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[I] sys-apps/hal
     Available versions:  0.5.7.1-r3 (~)0.5.7.1-r5 (~)0.5.9 (~)0.5.9-r1 {acpi crypt debug dell disk-partition dmi doc kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux pcmcia selinux}
     Installed versions:  0.5.9-r1(17:14:31 04/28/07)(acpi crypt -debug -dell -disk-partition -doc -kernel_FreeBSD kernel_linux pcmcia -selinux)
     Homepage:            http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal
     Description:         Hardware Abstraction Layer

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notebook roman # 

i've got hal-0.5.9-r1. i even tried downgrading to 0.5.7.1-r1, but the problem persists. Tried downgrading udev is well, no luck there either.

dodo

dodo1122 · Post by **dodo1122** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:59 pm

i SOLVED it. i had to emerge -C hal, then delete /usr/share/hal, then reinstall hal. worked for me

dodo

chris00 · Post by **chris00** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:47 am

Hello,

Thank's that solved the problem for me too.

So you can mark it as [solved] please.

I also added an entry at the Gentoo Wiki.

chris

bandreabis · Post by **bandreabis** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 12:15 pm

trying too.

Edit:
"lacks bus and class support for being resumed" error still there.

gren · Post by **gren** » Mon Jun 18, 2007 4:35 pm

Worked for me, too. Thanks dodo1122.

cdfs · Post by **cdfs** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 12:58 pm

Worked here also. Updated wiki, as this applies to GNOME also.

CDFS

fbiazi · Post by **fbiazi** » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:14 pm

No unmerge/emerge is needed.
Simply look at /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/ for a fdi file blocking automount.

On my case it was gparted that closed with an error and didn't delete the file gparted-disable-automount.fdi at this directory. The solution was simply open gparted and close it again (with the same user that opened it before).

Deleting the hal directory will erase several config files used by hal, but not owned by the hal package and reemerging won't restore it.

tenorism · Post by **tenorism** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 8:54 am

I had the same problem with automounting usb-sticks. Everything else worked ok (CD,DVD,card-reader).
Tried all that was mentioned in this thread with no success and here's where I found the solution

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL ... _correctly

If you are experiencing problems with automounting usb sticks and/or drives, but do not have problems with automounting CDs or DVDs, and if you are able to manually mount the USB device in question, then you should create the file "preferences.fdi" in the folder /etc/hal/fdi/policy and paste the following line into the file

<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>

Of course with gentooo the path should be /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/preferences.fdi
And life's back to normal again.

gasparov · Post by **gasparov** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:53 pm

Thanks....
I'm an gnome 2.20 and gparted crash on my system sometimes , after it crashed I was unable to automount usb flash, firing up gparted and close it properly solved the issue.

Thank You

WuDDjA · Post by **WuDDjA** » Tue Jan 01, 2008 1:32 pm

worked for me thx

Sodki · Post by **Sodki** » Wed Jan 02, 2008 3:10 pm

fbiazi wrote:On my case it was gparted that closed with an error and didn't delete the file gparted-disable-automount.fdi at this directory. The solution was simply open gparted and close it again (with the same user that opened it before).

This solved my problem too. It's a very strange solution to a very strange problem. I wonder what causes it..

phanboy_iv · Post by **phanboy_iv** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:07 pm

Sodki wrote:
fbiazi wrote:On my case it was gparted that closed with an error and didn't delete the file gparted-disable-automount.fdi at this directory. The solution was simply open gparted and close it again (with the same user that opened it before).
This solved my problem too. It's a very strange solution to a very strange problem. I wonder what causes it..

And mine as well. As you say, it's very odd.