Description of problem: I upgraded from FC4 to FC6, only to find that my USB card reader no longer behaved in the same way. Previously, I'd insert a card into the reader, and a subdirectory would appear in /media, which I, as a normal user, could mount. Now... nothing. After scouring the web for a bit, I found a mention in the FC5 release notes about fstab-sync begin replaced by gnome-mount (bad decision -- headless boxen have removable media, too, but that's another bug). The problem is, I have no idea how to use it, and it comes with no documentation whatsoever. No man page. Nothing useful in /usr/share/doc/gnome-mount-0.5. Running gnome-mount --help at least gives me a list of options, but that's not really much help. The only way I've got it to work is to use: gnome-mount -t --hal-udi '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_0403_0201' Not exactly user friendly. Now I know that there is probably some whizzy GNOME package to do this for me, but I'm not using GNOME (or KDE, for that matter -- the box is headless, and hence doesn't run X). What I want is information on how to use gnome-mount. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-mount-0.5-2.fc6
I'm not that familiar with gnome-mount but I had to use it recently on this FC6 machine and $man gnome-mount does display a somewhat informative page. rpm -q --filesbypkg gnome-mount shows the man page is installed on my FC6 machine at: /usr/share/man/man1/gnome-mount.1.gz I'm not sure why man isn't finding it for you, perhaps something went wrong during the upgrade between FC4 and FC6. I think it would be preferable if $gnome-mount when called with no arguments displayed the usage message(--help) rather than the version information but that is a separate issue and perhaps there is a reason for it being that way.
Wow. I'm 100% positive that there was no man page when I tried it before reporting this bug. However, it's there now. So either the man command had got itself confused somehow, or I was just having a complete brainfade. Either way, there's a man page, which is enough to close this bug.