From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 23:05:44 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8046A106566C for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:05:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C2CA8FC0C for ; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:05:43 +0000 (UTC) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBON5hpB023380; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:05:43 -0500 (EST) Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com [172.18.254.236]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id oBON5dLI009945; Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:05:39 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4D152743.5010502@freebsd.org> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:05:39 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stefan Stefansson References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS drives don't mount in Gnome after switching to NTFS-3G X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 23:05:44 -0000 On 12/23/10 3:22 AM, Stefan Stefansson wrote: > > I am using FreeBSD 8.1 Release amd64 with Gnome 2.32. > > I followed the directions on the HAL FAQ site and was able to get my NTFS drives to mount automatically when logging in. As this was only Read-Only, I installed the FUSE-NTFS port (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs) so I could use NTFS-3G and be able to write to the drives as well. > > I followed the directions in /usr/local/share/doc/hal-0.5.14/README.fuse, however, my NTFS drives no longer load. > > I submitted a text file to pastebin that includes all the information requested in the "How do I troubleshoot problems with hal?" section of the HAL FAQ. (I apologize if I should have posted the text here, but I wasn't sure if pasting a 4325 line text file was appropriate) > > The URL is: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=rsZZieNh Admittedly, I never used fuse, and things have changed a lot of in GNOME since this README was written. But in addition to changing the GConf keys, make sure you copied the mount script to /sbin, replacing the system mount_ntfs. Your gnome-mount command is wrong, too. The HAL UDI is /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_9C1AB32A1AB2FFF6, and you'll need to be in a DBus-enabled session to use it. Joe -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome