wmaker not detecting usb hard drive after boot

[Murat Uenalan]

Binary package hint: wmaker

My usb hard drive is detected after boot and is fine in gnome. But when seleting wmaker as my window manager, it is not available after booting. Amarok or rhythmbox for example will not find music located on the disk.

TRICK: Once I plug out and in again the drive appears in the gnome-panel/Place list (still wmaker) and when I open Nautilus once on the drive it is fully active and I can work with it without problems.

But doing this procedure after each boot is ugly

SUGGESTION: was too stupid to get something after fiddling with pmount. udev is also up. Actually lsusb lists the drive even so it is not accessible to other apps.

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Description: Ubuntu 9.04
Release: 9.04

~ lsusb
0471:2018 Philips

~lshal
udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_471_2018_20000000174E'
  info.linux.driver = 'usb' (string)
  info.parent = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_2_0000_00_13_2' (string)
  info.product = 'Philips USB hard disk' (string)
  info.subsystem = 'usb_device' (string)
  info.udi = '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_471_2018_20000000174E' (string)
  info.vendor = 'Philips' (string)
  linux.device_file = '/dev/bus/usb/002/003' (string)
  linux.hotplug_type = 2 (0x2) (int)
  linux.subsystem = 'usb' (string)
  linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-6' (string)
  usb_device.bus_number = 2 (0x2) (int)
  usb_device.can_wake_up = false (bool)
  usb_device.configuration = 'USB Mass Storage' (string)
  usb_device.configuration_value = 1 (0x1) (int)
  usb_device.device_class = 0 (0x0) (int)
  usb_device.device_protocol = 0 (0x0) (int)
  usb_device.device_revision_bcd = 0 (0x0) (int)
  usb_device.device_subclass = 0 (0x0) (int)
  usb_device.is_self_powered = false (bool)
  usb_device.linux.device_number = 3 (0x3) (int)
  usb_device.linux.sysfs_path = '/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-6' (string)
  usb_device.max_power = 2 (0x2) (int)
  usb_device.num_configurations = 1 (0x1) (int)
  usb_device.num_interfaces = 1 (0x1) (int)
  usb_device.num_ports = 0 (0x0) (int)
  usb_device.product = 'Philips USB hard disk' (string)
  usb_device.product_id = 8216 (0x2018) (int)
  usb_device.serial = '20000000174E' (string)
  usb_device.speed = 480.0 (480) (double)
  usb_device.vendor = 'Philips' (string)
  usb_device.vendor_id = 1137 (0x471) (int)
  usb_device.version = 2.0 (2) (double)

[Murat Uenalan (muenalan)]

after further diagnostics,

dmesg says:

[ 45.629274] usb 2-6: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 86.880026] usb 2-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 87.014052] usb 2-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 87.056261] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 87.056467] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 87.056589] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 87.056594] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 87.056596] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 87.056601] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 92.056254] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 92.152462] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access Hitachi HTS542525K9SA00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
[ 92.154939] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB)
[ 92.155809] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 92.155813] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
[ 92.155816] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 92.156433] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte hardware sectors: (250 GB/232 GiB)
[ 92.160846] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 92.160851] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 34 00 00 00
[ 92.160855] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 92.160864] sdb: sdb1
[ 92.178485] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
[ 92.178571] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

And a diff on the ps list before and after calling nautilus (which makes the drive available):

> 1 4063 4063 4063 ? -1 Ss 0 0:00 /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/PHILLIPS_250GB -o rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,locale=en_US.UTF-8
> 1 4067 3753 3753 ? -1 Sl 1000 0:01 nautilus --no-desktop /media/PHILLIPS_250GB
> 1 4070 3914 3914 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-trash --spawner :1.4 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/0
> 1 4078 3914 3914 ? -1 S 1000 0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfsd-burn --spawner :1.4 /org/gtk/gvfs/exec_spaw/1

Attached output of lsusb/ps just after bootup.