[Thunar-dev] failed to determine mount point for /dev/sda1

samuel verstraete samuel.verstraete at gmail.com
Wed Dec 6 22:49:36 CET 2006


On 12/6/06, Benedikt Meurer <benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de> wrote:
> Samuel Verstraete wrote:
> >>>>> Lately i'm experiencing a whole new problem (at least for me) with
> >>>>> thunar... Current svn and i keep getting the error message in the
> >>>>> subject. Manually using pmount to mount my mass storage devices
> >>>>> works like a charm but with thunar it fails
> >>>>>
> >>>>> dbus  : 1.0.1
> >>>>> dbus-glib : 0.72
> >>>>> hal: 0.5.8.1
> >>>>> pmount: 0.9.13
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Any suggestions?
> >>>> Post the output of "mount" after a manual pmount for the device.
> >>> /dev/sdb1 on /media/sdb1 type vfat
> >>> (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=101,umask=077)
> >> Well, that's sdb1. Whatabout sda1?
> >
> > /dev/sda1 on /media/sda1 type vfat
> > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,gid=101,umask=077)
>
> Hm, that's weird. The error message indicates that the kernel does not
> know wherer /dev/sda1 is mounted. Do you have gnome-mount installed as well?

No.

On a side note... I now have it on both my linux (lunar) boxes. Still
absolutely no clue where it comes from... both are running 2.6.18.5 as
the kernel...
But it is weird that pmount does manage to mount without a problem and
thunar does not... or do i miss something here?


>
> Benedikt
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