Ubuntu
autofs package

USB HD formatted ext3 does not automount.

Bug #127474 reported by Robert McMeekin
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autofs (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

1. Plug-in Seagate FreeAgent 320GB USB Hard Disk
2. "sudo lshw -C disk" to find device
3. fdisk <device>, delete NTFS partition, create primary linux partition, and write.
4. sudo mke2fs -j <device>1
5. Un-plug device
6. Plug device back in.

Actual outcome: device nodes are created in the /dev directory for the hard disk and the partition.

Expected outcome: an icon is created on the desktop and the media is mounted somewhere in the /media directory. This is what happens when you plug-in the Seagate FreeAgent 320GB with it's original NTFS formatted partition.

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :
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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

robert@guitar:~$ uname -a
Linux guitar 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 20:19:32 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

I ran gconftool-2 --recursive-unset / and the icon appeared on the desktop. I have know idea what happened.

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

Umm. This is probably really annoying, but I did a fresh install, and it seems like if I unmount the disk, restart the computer, and then plug the disk in, an icon is created on the desktop, but if I don't restart the computer, an icon is not created on the desktop and the disk is not mounted (although devices are created).

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

Taking a guess that this is the package.

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

This is probably a duplicate of Bug #40189

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

or not. I don't know. I'm sorry.

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

Really, I think it's the same as what's described here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=508372

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Robert McMeekin (rrm3) wrote :

Ah. It's probably a duplicate of Bug #61235

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unggnu (unggnu) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug #126825 so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug.
Additionally any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

Changed in autofs:
status: New → Invalid
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Fabián Rodríguez (magicfab) wrote :

Issues described are a result of this drive going to auto-sleep.

Changing duplicate marking to Bug #193154.

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