[Mageia-dev] Media mounting broken

[Frank Griffin]

On 01/31/2012 06:52 AM, Frank Griffin wrote:
>
> There was a discussion about this on the thread "mkinitrd and 
> Mageia2".  As near as I can figure, there used to be something, maybe 
> GNOME-related, that kicked in for LXDE and GNOME apps run under KDE 
> and automounted removable disks.  It stopped doing this a week or so ago.
>
> KDE recognizes the volume availability, but does not automount the 
> volume unless you choose some action from the device notification 
> popup that it (KDE) realizes requires it, e. g. Dolphin (or maybe 
> Dolphin does the automount).
>
> The result is that (at least) LXDE and GNOME apps under KDE which 
> require mounted volumes like brasero or anything under wine no longer 
> work.  Wine apps stopped working under KDE a while ago, probably for 
> this reason, and probably because wine doesn't "trigger" whatever 
> GNOME apps under KDE were triggering.
>

I've just found that if you right-click on the device notifier panel 
icon and select Settings, then Removable Media, there is an option to 
automount removable media which  is not checked.  I'll bet the default 
for this changed with the latest KDE upload.  Still doesn't explain why 
LXDE has problems, tho.