Auto-mounting works but no icon visible

[Dominique Goncalves]

Hi Joe

On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
> 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).

Thanks for the clarification, I created a memory disk with mdconfig
then mounted in /media and it works.

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

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