Description of problem: When I plug in a multi-card reader with a factory-formatted compact flash card in I'm greeted with a nonsensical popup. Trying to click on the flash name in the gnome shortcuts menu results in a similar popup. mounting it as root on the CLI works fine (mount -t auto /dev/sde1 /mnt/) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-mount-0.8-1.fc9.x86_64 How reproducible: Always
Created attachment 302947 [details] Nonsensical popup
Created attachment 302948 [details] system lshal
Try this 'gnome-mount -v -t -b -d /dev/sde1' and paste the output (ensure sde1 isn't mounted before trying it)
Here you go $ gnome-mount -v -t -b -d /dev/sde1 gnome-mount 0.8 ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_FC30_3DA9 ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: read mount point '/media/CompactFlash' from gconf string key '/system/storage/drives/_org_freedesktop_Hal_devices_storage_serial_Generic_USB_CF_Reader_058F63626376_0_1/mount_point' ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: read default option 'shortname=lower' from gconf strlist key /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: read default option 'uid=' from gconf strlist key /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_FC30_3DA9 with mount_point='/media/CompactFlash', fstype='', num_options=2 ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: option='shortname=lower' ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: option='uid=500' ** Message: Mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_FC30_3DA9 org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFailure : mount_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPARATOR (usually /)
> ** (gnome-mount:26946): DEBUG: read mount point '/media/CompactFlash' from gconf string key From the gnome-mount man page -m, --mount-point Specify mount point to use; don’t include /media as this is automatically appened by the mechanism used to mount, e.g. the HAL methods. Maybe you set the mount point from the Nautilus extension UI (which I agree is somewhat suboptimal / crappy but that's a separate bug and partly why it's not in the default install) and it didn't warn you that slash isn't allowed. Just changing the key from /media/CompactFlash to CompactFlash should work. Or better, just delete the gconf bits for this drive and just change the fs label to be CompactFlash. Then this will work automatically without having to mess around with gconf settings and whatnot. Hope this helps.
(In reply to comment #5) > Or > better, just delete the gconf bits for this drive and just change the fs label > to be CompactFlash. Then this will work automatically without having to mess > around with gconf settings and whatnot. Since I never saw the extension you talk of and besides never had a compact flash media before I sort of doubt I added this key manually, but whatever added it is gone now and removing the gconf key works, thank you very much.