USB devices are not mounted automatically
#1
Hi,

I'm having troubles with the automatic mounting of USB storage devices, XBMC just doesn't recognise them.
I installed XBMC 9.11 alpha 1 r24283 on Ubuntu Jaunty i686 (I mostly followed this guide even though I don't have an Acer Revo)

Here is a debug log where I started XBMC and then plugged in the external HD.
Here is another one where I first plugged in the HD and then started XBMC (don't know if it makes a difference)

dmesg output
hal-device output

Any help would be very appreciated.
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#2
Hi and welcome to the forums, there seems to be a regression regarding this. I have a fix and will commit it ASAP.

So it should be fixed in next release.

in the meantime you may add an advancedsettings.xml with the following and it should work.

Code:
<advancedsettings>
<handlemounting>true</handlemounting>
</advancedsettings>

P.S Thanx for a splendid bugreport!

cheers,
Tobias
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#3
Thanks for the advice, additionally I had to execute
Code:
sudo polkit-auth --user xbmc --grant org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable
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