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rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 8

Strange problem automount + Thunar

hi , im having problems with Thunar and the automount for usb drives, if i check the file manager preferences in the advanced tab i cant reach the volume manager options and i have this message : you need to install thunar-vfs and HAL in order to use the Thunar volume manager, but i have these packages!...also a few weeks ago it was correctly working. i think it's a problem of Thunar because the usb drives are correctly mounted in /media/ but i cant see any icon on my desktop

thanks in advance

rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 8

Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

ok i try to run thunar-volman --device-added (udi) i get a message that says that i cant mount the device because the HAL support was not compiled

rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

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Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

mmm sorry for the stupid question but im not an expert, i downloaded thunar-volman from here http://git.xfce.org/apps/thunar-volman/ filename thunar-volman-0.5.1.tar.bz2  ...i unpacked it on my desktop and im trying to compile it (in order to solve the HAL support problem) but i cant find any configure script!...Isnt it supposed to be in this folder?

herd

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Registered: 2006-05-18

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Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

- running ./autogen.sh will create the configure script.
- the version you downloaded should match the other packages.
- which distribution are you on?

rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

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Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

ok thanks! im using debian squeeze, later i will try

rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

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Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

ah if has to match the other packeges, i guess i should download the 0.3.80 no?

etnlWings

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Registered: 2007-10-30

Posts: 218

Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

If you're using debian, you should be d/ling the debian-ised source ala

mkdir src
cd src
apt-get build-dep thunar-volman
apt-get source thunar-volman
cd thunar-volman*
dh_make --createorig
dpkg-buildpackage
gdebi ../thunar-volman*.deb

rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 8

Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

thanks! now the thunar-volman is almost working correctly...if i plug an usb device i see the icon on my desktop, but if i try to unmount it i have this error message: unmount failed, the volume was probably mounted manually using the command line...but i didnt use the command line to mount it, any idea to solve this problem?

thanks

rekotc

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Registered: 2010-10-04

Posts: 8

Re: Strange problem automount + Thunar

ok now the error message has changed, when i try to unmount the device the error is : cannot remove directory

?

i found something similar to my problem here:

http://forum.xfce.org/index.php?topic=5458.0

but no solutions..