Bug 4270

Summary:	removable devices not displayed so cannot be mounted/unmounted in left panel
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Richard Walker <richard.j.walker>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	José Jorge <lists.jjorge>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	ftg, hhielscher
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	pcmanfm	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Richard Walker 2012-01-25 01:58:51 CET

Up to date Cauldron (MGA2 Alpha3), LXDE desktop. Using pcmanfm 0.9.10 1mga x86_64
The default left upper panel shows home, desktop, applications and mountable media (floppy, external drives).

Icons are provided for connected drives and deleted when the drives are removed. The icon can be used to mount and unmount removable media or eject optical discs.

This drive management has disappeared. No Icons are created for external USB drives - memory or disc based - or for data CDs.

Except: One of my external drives also contains a Windows VFAT partition. As above, no icons appear but it automatically mounts and its contents are displayed in a new tab in pcmanfm.

All options in pcmanfm Preferences for Volume Management are selected.

Comment 1 Manuel Hiebel 2012-01-25 22:50:01 CET

José any ideas ?

Assignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
Source RPM: (none) => pcmanfm

Comment 2 Richard Walker 2012-01-26 01:03:20 CET

After latest updates (23:59 GMT 25 Jan);

Uninstalled all LXDE-related packages. Removed all user configuration files for LXDE and components. Re-installed LXDE and restored configuration. No change.

Comment 3 Frank Griffin 2012-01-26 01:25:04 CET

I'm seeing the same thing (see my ML post from the last few days "Automount broken").  Under LXDE, the DE has no idea that a disk has been loaded.  KDE "knows", but doesn't mount the volume under /media, so most apps can't access it.

CC: (none) => ftg

Comment 4 Richard Walker 2012-01-27 01:17:37 CET

Strange, I find slightly different behaviour, probably because I don't use KDE. All my external drive partitions appear in Konqueror's "Places" view and can be mounted/unmounted there. The mount point is created in /media and a pcmanfm window opens with the newly mounted drive contents in the display.

I have set pcmanfm preferences to display newly mounted drives.

However, a link in my home directory which points to a particular mount no longer works from pcmanfm. It works in konqueror and mc.

Helge Hielscher 2012-01-28 18:52:15 CET

CC: (none) => hhielscher

Comment 5 Richard Walker 2012-01-30 00:51:07 CET

Correction to last point in my last comment. pcmanfm WILL follow a symbolic link to an external drive partition mounted by konqueror, but you have to hit F5 to re-read the directory containing the link to update its status and make it work.

Comment 6 Richard Walker 2012-02-01 00:51:57 CET

Whatever the problem was for pcmanfm it seems to be working now. Did anyone do anything? I didn't notice any likely looking updates in the dozen or so that came tonight.

Comment 7 José Jorge 2012-02-01 11:32:50 CET

See the Cauldron ML for details...

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED