Hi Desmond, On Jul 21 13:28, Desmond Armstrong wrote: > >running Gnome under Fedora 13, I have a strange problem when auto > >mounting a certain CF card. I need this card to be mounted with > >shortnames=lower, but since gnome has no way to change the mount > >options, I created an /etc/fstab entry using the UUID for this drive, > >like this: > > > >UUID=4DCC-F3FA /media/myCF vfat noauto,user,rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=23345,gid=11125,shortname=lower,dmask=0077,utf8=1,flush 0 0 > > > >This worked fine at first, then I switched to the XFCE4 desktop for > >a while for testing purposes. Now that I switched back to the Gnome > >desktop, I get this weird behaviour. > > > >When I plug in the CF card, it gets mounted into /media/myCF. However, > >at the same time a dialog appears: > > > > Failed to mount "MYCF" > > > > You are not privileged to mounnnt the volume "MYCF". > >[...] > > I see this problem quite a lot. > The main cause of the problem is that the device is unplugged > without first unmounting, even with M$ this can cause problems. > > The way to deal with the problem is the set the mount point of the > device to 'no mount point' > Also after you have done this you may need to apply, as root:- > > # cd /media > # ls > then > # cd /media//'your card'/ > > # chown -R /yourself yourself/ > > now if you correctly unmount (in Linux and in M$) each time then you > will be able to plug in, automount and read (and write) your card > with your current user profile. > > So don't boot the machine plugged in, only plug it in after you are > in your profile and do try to unmount and unplug before you logoff - > not vital, but good habit anyway. > > p.s. before I understood this problem I resorted to reformatting the > card, but that was many years ago - totally uneccessary. thanks for your reply. Actually, since I rebooted the other day I could suddenly not reproduce the problem anymore. It just disappeared. Still frustrating is the fact that there's nothing pointing to the actual reason for this behaviour. I guess you're right, it has something to do with the card being mounted at boot time or so. However, I tried that today and it didn't have any effect. Just weird. Thanks, Corinna _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
