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Lost Nautilus' autostart for cd/dvd and sd card...

Asked by Petar Milin

After a few updates of the Hardy, Nautilus' automatic start when cd/dvd or sd card are inserted has been lost. They seem to be mounted, because when I open Places and click on the icon, Nautilus eventually shows their content. But automatic show function, which was present upon installation and in all previous versions of Ubuntu, does not work. Interestingly, usb-flash still does the job -- Nautilus shows its content immediately when it is connected.

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PM

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Andrew (and471) said : 		#1

Okay, open a terminal (Applications > Accessories > Terminal) and type in:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/media_automount True

Press Enter and then type in:

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/media_automount_open True

And press enter again. Now auto mounted media will have a window opened for it and it shall be automatically mounted.

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Petar Milin (pmilin-gmail) said : 		#2

Hello!
Well, I did everything and no luck! Although, I think I checked that before in Application > System Tools > Configuration Editor > apps > nautilus > preferences, if that does the same job.
So it might be that cd/dvd and sd are not automount media. That is, my system changed it or lost it for unknown reasons. If that's true, how can I define cd/dvd and sd to be automount media?

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Petar Milin (pmilin-gmail) said : 		#3

Now, I dig deeper into this. It seems that Configuration Editor (gconftool-2) has everything checked as it should -- all automount are set to TRUE:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/media_automount True
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/desktop/media_automount_open True
as above, but also:
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount True
gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/media_automount_open True

One look at fstab give me, again, nice view, since it looks fine:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=9e3a090a-d71f-4370-9a0e-fff670c6e024 / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda3
UUID=1883818f-699e-4f2c-9d2f-a9f234c18b56 /home ext3 relatime 0 2
# /dev/sda1
UUID=BE54A5E854A5A41D /media/windows ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda4
UUID=6da3517c-44b3-4382-b5f7-9e2771c43368 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

Any idea? Is this about mounting not working on insertion? What is going on? Please, help!

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PM

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#4

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Petar Milin (pmilin-gmail) said : 		#5

This is still an open problem. I tried many things, with no luck at all. Please, help me? Is anyone experiencing something similar?

PM

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stlubuntu (jlrbennett) said : 		#7

Please ignore FAQ title to this -- it is merely a placeholder to get this posted.

http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Hardy#How_to_make_VLC_open_when_you_insert_a_DVD

Hey friend! I also had a similar problem and the above link was helpful. It seems to me that the key to solving this was having a Exec=vlc %f entry line in the .desktop launcher file for the application you wish to use (i.e. Exec=vlc %f for vlc) which wll be found in your /usr/share/applications/ directory. Futher, the relevant entry need to be in your /etc/gnome/defaults.list file relative to the device (i.e.
x-content/video-dvd=vlc.desktop to make vlc autolaunch a dvd.) Similar entry and .desktop file for your CD player.) I much prefer to edit the /etc/gnome/defualts.list to make this a global setting for all users (instead of the one in the /home/user/ area.

Hope this helps.

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