Re: Recognizing Connected Media

["Andrea Vettorello" <andrea vettorello gmail com>]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocm soton ac uk> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:23 PM, Andrea Vettorello
>  <andrea vettorello gmail com> wrote:
>  > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 7:21 PM, Paulo J. Matos <pocm soton ac uk> wrote:
>  >  > Hello all,
>  >  >
>  >  >  Gnome 2.20.3 here. I had hotplugging working up until last January or
>  >  >  something but as it happens for some reason it stopped working.
>  >  >  I can't however, figure out why. I connect my external drivers, flash,
>  >  >  camera, etc and nothing happens. Nothing gets mounted.
>  >
>  >  [...]
>  >
>  >
>  >  >  Like, is the problem from hal, dbus, nautilus (or whoever is involved
>  >  >  in this process)? How can I check this? How can I debug them
>  >  >  afterwards?
>  >
>  >  Is gnome-volume-manager running when you connect removable drives?
>  >
>
>  Yes:
>  $ ps -aux | grep gnome-volume-manager
>  pmatos    5466  0.0  0.6  19616  6536 ?        Ss   12:53   0:00
>  gnome-volume-manager --sm-disable
>
>  With this running, I can connect whatever and nothing happens.

Ok.

Start checking your kernel logs, (/var/log/syslog or
/var/log/kern.log, depends how your syslogd/sysklogd is configured)
when you attach a removable storage (tail -f yourlogfile).

You should see info about USB, SCSI, SD (storage device), hald and
probably gnome-keyring-daemon. On Fedora (and BSD?) i think PolicyKit
should be involved too, but I've no details (Debian here)...


-- 
Andrea