Auto-mounting works but no icon visible

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2008-09-08 at 11:50 +0200, Dominique Goncalves wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use gnome2-2.23.91 (compiled WITH_DEBUG=YES). The auto-mounting
> works (gnome_enable is set in rc.conf) but there is no icon visible in
> the desktop.
> 
> $ gconftool-2 -g '/apps/nautilus/desktop/volumes_visible'
> true
> 
> My / is read-only (liveCD) so I created a symlink /media -> /usr/home/media
> 
> $ ls -l / | grep media
> lr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel     14  5 sep 16:51 media -> usr/home/media
> 
> $ mount|grep media
> /dev/msdosfs/JETDISK on /usr/home/media/JETDISK (msdosfs, local, nosuid)
> 
> >From /var/log/messages:
> Sep  8 11:12:08 hostname kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1
> is msdosfs/JETDISK.
> Sep  8 11:12:20 hostname gnome-keyring-daemon[1521]: adding removable
> location: volume_uuid_33D4_B30C at /usr/home/media/JETDISK
> 
> Nautilus can't add an icon in the desktop if /media is not a directory?

No.  /media cannot be a symlink.  It must be a real directory.  It is a
valid system directory as documented in hier(7).

Joe

> 
> Let me know if you need more information.
> 
> Thanks,
> Regards.
> 
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