mounted device icons not appearing in F9 (rawhide)

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 18 May 2008 19:22:18 Janez Košmrlj wrote:
> rlengland at verizon.net wrote:
> >> From: Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com>
> >> Date: 2008/04/25 Fri PM 01:13:25 CDT
> >> To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> >> Subject: Re: mounted device icons not appearing in F9 (rawhide)
> >>
> >> On Friday 25 April 2008 04:46:03 Richard England wrote:
> >>> I have what I believe is a fully updated rawhide F9 installation with
> >>> NFS functioning.
> >>>
> >>> I have entries in /etc/fstab and the   "mount /mnt/foo"  commands work
> >>> as expected and data is accessible on the mounted drives (mounted from
> >>> other systems on my internal home network).
> >>>
> >>> The only issue I'm seeing is that the desktop icons are not appearing
> >>> on the F9 system.
> >>>
> >>> The mounts are being done by opening a new terminal and su'ing to root.
> >>> In past release this caused the desktop icons to appear. Is anyone else
> >>> seeing this behaviour?  Any suggestions on where to investigate?
> >>>
> >>> I was unsuccessful locating anything resembling this on Bugzilla.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure that we are going to get the desktop icons - and I for one
> >> do prefer them, for their visibility.  In F9 a widget pops up when such
> >> a device is inserted, and in that widget you elect to open it in
> >> dolphin.  You can configure the length of time that the widget stays
> >> visible.
> >>
> >> The question I asked was how to umount it.  I was told that it is done
> >> within dolphin - the icon in the left-hand panel.  It works, no doubt
> >> about it, but I don't like it much.  For one thing, it feels clumsy in
> >> the extreme to open it by one method and then use a totally unrelated
> >> method to umount it.
> >>
> >> Anne
> >
> > I wasn't real clear, I guess.
> >
> > The mounted devices, in my case, are not removable devices.  They are
> > disks that exist on other computers on my network that are shared by NFS.
> >  (BTW, I see the same issue with smb/cifs.)  I manually perform the
> > mounts when needed. using "mount /mnt/<exported_directory>"  with  the
> > appropriated entries added to fstab....
> >
> > Also, I'm using Gnome, if that matters.
> >
> > Trying to read between the lines, is the fstab entry technique
> > deprecated?  Is there a new process that is supposed to be used?  I
> > suffer from a certain amount of inertia, here.  If it works, I just keep
> > on using the same technique.  Perhaps I missed the change.
> >
> > Enlighten me, anyone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > ~~R
> >
> > ~~R
>
> same for me. i have some nfs shares entered in fstab and i can't see
> them on the computer icon or when mounted on the desktop like it was in
> previous fedora releases. in gnome i can only do manual mounts via Disk
> Mounter applet. did i miss some default changes or is this a bug.
>
> thanks

Since the mounts occur (they can be listed under /media) the fstab entry is 
working.  It's my guess that desktop links are not yet implemented in KDE4.  
I can't answer for Gnome..

If your mounts don't succeed you may need to edit fstab.  Several of us have 
found that to be necessary.  It would probably be best for you to post a 
failing line so that we can advise.

Anne
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