Frederick Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Hi everybody, I have installed a fresh Mandriva 2005LE and I have a bit of a problem with my external USB harddrive. If i am not logged in as root, i can not write anything to it. I have tried it with firefox, openoffice2.0 and konqueror, and only firefox still doesn't want to write to my USB disk when root. I have tried to write to my other FAT partitions as a regular user, and it works. I have a correct setup in MCC and fstab i believe, so i don't know what is going on. I have provided screenshots of the problem. Thanks for your help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 You don't need either supermount (obsolete) or the (obviously self made) fstab entry on mandy 2005LE. Simply remove the fstab entry, and if you have message bus (dbus) and hal running then fstab-sync will create an entry and mount the pen drive every time you plug it. You can also add ivman to the above duo (for more convenience). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted October 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 I think I have a problem with the version of HAL I have installed, since this is the first time it has happened to me with Mandriva 2005LE Here is the message I get if i try to fstab-sync: libhal.c 644 : Error connecting to system bus: Failed to connect to socket /var/run/dbus/system_dbus_socket: No such file or directory Segmentation fault Hmm, not good hey? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frederick Posted October 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 I have solved the issue (at least partially). The directory was not writable to all users whatever was written in fstab, so i had to change the permissions manually. But my USB-harddrive is self-powered (I have no problems whatsoever with my externally powered USB harddrive) and that might be the problem (it uses two USB ports, one for connection, one for alimentation. Any thoughts? BTW, I am working on a laptop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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