Bug 160884

Summary: Problem mounting external USB hard drive
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Chris Rosewarne <crosewarne>
Component: gnome-desktopAssignee: Ray Strode [halfline] <rstrode>
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Description Chris Rosewarne 2005-06-18 00:34:18 UTC 
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Description of problem:
When attaching an external USB hard disk to the system, no icon appears on the desktop at first.  After following a few steps and receiving an error message the icon appears on the desktop.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Plug in external USB Hard Disk Drive (wait a bit - no icon on desktop)
2. Click on 'Computer' icon on desktop
3. Click on '250GB External Hard Drive...' icon
4. A window with this error message appears:

mount: /dev/sda1 already mounted or /media/usbdisk busy
mount: according to mtab, /dev/sda1 is already mounted on /media/usbdisk

5. Press OK



Actual Results:  After clicking on the HDD icon in the Computer window, the desktop icon does appear.

Expected Results:  The USB disk icon should appear when the disk is plugged in, with no error message

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Comment 1 Ray Strode [halfline] 2005-06-19 22:28:02 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 160886 ***