[oi-dev] OI no longer automounts USB sticks

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Sun Jun 6 18:06:06 UTC 2021


On 6/6/21 10:30 AM, Gary Mills wrote:
> As far as I can tell, "dbus" sends messages to "hal" about the state
> of devices on the system.  However, for insertion of USB sticks, this
> does not happen.  I don't know why it doesn't happen.

hal monitors the devices and uses dbus to send messages to other programs
on certain events - like notifying the GNOME/Mate file manager when a new
removable media device is inserted or removed so they can show/hide it.

	-alan-



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