On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: > I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about. I am familiar with the > mount and umount commands issued at a shell prompt, but this "right click" > business I don't understand. Are you talking about some icon on the desktop, > such as GNOME or KDE? when a drive appears automatically mounted on a debian system with GNOME there is an icon for it on the desktop. a very easy way to unmount the drive is to right click on it. this is no longer working properly.
> And what do you you mean you issued chmod? just some trial and error fixes since i could not find any similar problems on the net. > What do file permissions have to do with mounting or unmounting a file system? my thinking at the time was since i just transfered the contents of the drive to a new drive then perhaps some permissions for umount were not working correctly. i thought that if the file was assigned only for root access then my normal user account could not run the program. causing the error. i figured that since it was only a permissions change i could easily set it back if it did not solve the "right click> unmount" issue. > You didn't change the file permissions of the mount or umount commands > themselves, did you? That shouldn't be necessary. yes, i did. just to see if it would fix "right click> unmount" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/i2vf8d5d4f31004051051h5a808ad9ob15e3c19c3a89...@mail.gmail.com
