SD won't auto-mount.

[directive0]

Hey all. Noob question for ya;

When my pandora starts up or when I put in the SD card it no longer auto mounts my sd card. It shows it greyed out in thunar (it will mount it if I then click on the greyed out name), and when I look in the /media/ folder I see that it has started making new folders for my SD card everytime.

So if I mounted a disk called "Pandora SW" then eject it and reinsert it it makes a new folder called "Pandora SW_", then if I repeat that step it makes a NEW folder called "Pandora SW__". It keeps adding a _ to the end. When I have no SD cards inserted these folders persist even after restart.

Would love to know why. Thanks.

 

[levi]

Sounds...broken. What happens if you unmount the card before ejecting it?

FWIW, automounting is still something of a black art for me, so when my arch install didn't come with it, I never bothered finding out how to do it - but it should work out of the box on SuperZaxxon on Pandora.

 

[directive0]

Same problem when I manually u mount, it makes a new folder in media with the _ underscore added

 

[levi]

You mean it makes the folder with the extra underscore, even if you unmount the card before removing and re-inserting it? Does the old directory remain?

 

[directive0]

Yeah. I get an error about permissions.

Failed to unmount "X"
org.freedesktop.hal.storage.unmount-others no <-- (privilege, result).

 

[levi]

What about from the terminal, doing an 'sudo umount /media/diskname'?

If the old directory remains after unmount, it does suggest the broken unmount is forcing the remount to come up with a new folder name to me though.

 

[directive0]

That would seem to be correct. Sudo umount will remove the folder and unmount the drive without error.

So the question remains; how can I remove the folders that are there without breaking anything (dumb question, but I'm pretty nooby) and restore permissions to whatever function is unmounting these cards?

 

[levi]

So my assumption was wrong then; if 'sudo umount' works in deleting the automounted folder, the automounter seems to be basically working, just unmounting from thunar is to some extent not working.

It does look like a permissions error in that case; possibly your normal user isn't in the right groups needed, or possibly hasn't been given the right settings in /etc/sudoers. I don't have my Pandora fully working yet though, so I can't try it and see how it's configured right now I'm afraid.

 

[directive0]

Ah well. Guess the best option is just to reflash. I've done that a couple times already and I'm worried about the NAND.

 

[ingoreis]

I have so many Pandoras and i never had Problems with the Nand.


I am Compiling little Things on it with Codeblocks or Cdevtools.


When there are Problems then a Reflash helped ever here

 

[directive0]

Reflashed and the problem is gone.

Thanks for the advice all. Wish I knew what caused it so I can avoid it next time. Maybe the SD was removed when it was asleep? Would that have cause it?

 

[directive0]

This is annoying; I can't unmount drives from the file manager. Gives the same error. What the heck is going on?

I don't want to run into the same problem again so I'm not just removing the SD cards whenever I feel like it. Is this going to make much of a difference?

 

[TrashyMG]

I do seem to get a "cannot remove directory error message",  but it does seem to unmount the SD card properly outside of removing the /media/SDCARDNAME directory. 

Usually I just rip out the SD cards when I feel like it and don't deal with proper "unmounting" processes... I'm a badass like that.