automounting and glabel

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Oct 8 04:28:27 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-10-05 at 11:08 -0700, Ted Faber wrote:
> hald & nautilus seem to not automount USB memory disks with glabels on
> them, even if that label is a single character (no spaces).  Is there
> some configuration file I need to change to get the mount to happen?
> 
> I didn't include all the debug information, because I see this behavior
> over several systems and over FreeBSD7-STABLE and FreeBSD-8RC1.
> 
> If it's a bug, here's how I can reproduce it:  
> 
> Insert an unlableled USB memory stick without a glabel.
> Nautilus will mount it.
> Unmount it from the menu and make sure it no longer shows up in df
> put a glabel on:
> 
> $ sudo glabel label A /dev/da0s1a
> 
> Pull the drive out, and put it back in.  /dev/label/A and /dev/da0s1
> will appear in the FS, but the drive will not be mounted by Nautilus.
> 
> $ sudo glabel clear /dev/da0s1
> 
> Remove and replace and the drive will mount again.

You may want to try with hal-0.5.13 in MarcusCom CVS at
http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ports .  If that
doesn't work, you will need to follow the instructions at
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html to properly report a
problem with hal.

Joe

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