gnome-volume-manager not working

Martin Pitt martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Fri Apr 21 08:07:43 BST 2006


Hi,

Matt Zimmerman [2006-04-20 15:08 -0700]:
> On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 12:09:01PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > I am running Dapper and have dbus, hal, and gnome-volume-manager
> > installed but no matter what I do I cannot get Gnome to mount my ipod
> > automatically when I plug it in.  It does show up in "Places->Computer"
> > but if I double click it I get a useless "Unable to mount the selected
> > volume" error dialog - "Show More Details" says "error: could not
> > execute pmount".  /usr/bin/pmount does exist.
> > 
> > It works if I mount it manually from the command line so I know this is
> > a Gnome problem not a kernel one.
> > 
> > What am I missing here?
> 
> Sounds like you aren't in the plugdev group for some reason (the installer
> sets all of this up correctly for you).

Yes, this was the case; I already answered in private, I forgot to
reply to the list.

Martin

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