Gnome + hal + mountpoints

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mony87 · Post by **mony87** » Sat Dec 15, 2007 3:54 am

I have a little problem. When I mount something manualy in /mnt/flash for example it shows on the desktop (i made volumes visible in gconf), but automounting with hal mounts usb,mmc etc in /media. How to make gnome to show mounted drives in /media on the desktop too? Or the other option to make hald mounting points in /mnt?

ltboy · Post by **ltboy** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:29 pm

/media is the new standard mountpoint for removable media such as mmc,usb etc... in fact, with hal you no longer even have to statically set your cd/dvd drives in fstab. Anyhow, check your removable media settings in gnome(System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media) and play with that, as long as you have it set to mount on insert/hotplug it should show the media device on your desktop, however, sometimes HAL needs to be reset for automounting to work correctly. as such:

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# /etc/init.d/hald stop
# emerge --unmerge hal
# rm -R /etc/hal
# rm -R /usr/share/hal
# emerge hal
# /etc/init.d/hald start

ltboy · Post by **ltboy** » Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:31 pm

Oh, Almost forgot, if you use NetworkManager then stopping hald will stop your network connection as well, to bring it back up just make sure you have a net.lo symlink with the same name as your network device(i.e. /etc/init.d/net.wlan1) and start that.

bblount · Post by **bblount** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 3:02 am

Thanks ltboy for this reset proceedure. I had an issue with hal that it fixed right up.

ltboy · Post by **ltboy** » Mon Dec 17, 2007 6:48 am

No problem... I actually found that buried in the ubuntu forums... Surprising actually how little there is about HAL at the Gentoo wiki... I might have to do something about that...

EDIT: Hmmm.... I take that back, there actually is info on HAL at the wiki, it's just stuck in a conglomerate page for DBUS HAL and KDE media:// locations... That