[SOLVED] Mageia 5 RC auto mount external USB drive

[jimtheplanner]

I've marked this as solved.... However; I would share my external hard drive experience with others. I use an external USB Seagate hard drive as backup using Luckybackup. When I installed the Mageia 5 KDE "Live" (64Bit) all went well until I plugged in my backup and got no response!!! - it just would not auto mount - this issue was show stopper for me.

I then downloaded tried the "Classic" install KDE (64) and plugged in backup - and had instant detection with the drive mounted!!!

Not sure what's different or missing from the "Live" version? I did try two independent live downloads and burn with the same result. So now using the classic install all is good and I'm enjoying the "5" experience.

Jim

[doktor5000]

Hard to say what the difference was without any actual logs. If you have similar device recognition problems, I suggest you do the following:

Please do the following after unplugging your device - Open a terminal, and as root run:

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journalctl -af

then wait a few seconds, and plugin the device, and wait again fifteen seconds or so, until no new output appears.
Then post everything here.

[jimtheplanner]

Thanks for the code advice I shall keep it in mind for any further issues...