USB automounting problem-resolved

Ed lawson elawson at grizzy.com
Fri Dec 21 20:11:28 EST 2007


Awhile back I posted about a problem I had with automounting my USB 
drive.  Using Debian Sid and Gnome.  Turns out that the gparted program 
wrote a policy file prohibiting automounting in 
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/ when started and did not delete it when 
closed so it prevented automounting till deleted.

Not easy to discover cause of problem.

So for future reference, always check that directory as well as 
/etc/hal/fid/policy/ is something goes amiss to see if a policy file has 
gone bonkers.

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