Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 18:05:39 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org> To: Stefan Stefansson <stefan.stefansson@live.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS drives don't mount in Gnome after switching to NTFS-3G Message-ID: <4D152743.5010502@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <BAY137-W12274B517AF68570C7A8298C1C0@phx.gbl> References: <BAY137-W12274B517AF68570C7A8298C1C0@phx.gbl>
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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
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