Pmount stopped working in Puppy 4.1

[CatDude]

Hello again Barry

Good question.
Um, I think if you untick everything that has to do with hotplug support, then delete that icon, hopefully it won't come back next time X is started.

I tried that, it doesn't work, the icon re-appears again.
I guess i will have to wait for 4.2, although i mainly use version 400 so it is not urgent.

CatDude
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[3wsparky]

I am experiencing the same issue

anyone sust this one out yet ?

i renamed pmount to tmount to see if it was that creating the link but it wasn't some other script is placing that icon there.

very anoying

[SmartCyber]

I have the same issue pmount won't load
pmounterr has this
/usr/sbin/pmount: line 293: /tmp/gtkdialog_pmount: cannot execute binary file

[MU]

try Muppyquickmount,
download see first message here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=32575
Mark

[SmartCyber]

I have the same issue pmount won't load
pmounterr has this
/usr/sbin/pmount: line 293: /tmp/gtkdialog_pmount: cannot execute binary file

I have made a new full install of puppy in the same machine and it worked OK then I decided to repeat what I did last....

Press and hold poweroff while drive is mounted

I got the same error

It seems power failures or bad shutdown is the cause of this

Let me try try what's suggested above.

SmartCyber
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[SmartCyber]

Damn.... what a morning to wake up only to realize 6 of my cybercafe computers PMount is not working...

CCLFox does not shutdown client instead it makes the system halts and the computers would hang there till I manually powerofff...

Now am faced with a very big problem... How will my clients mount their flash drives.... 1 day of running Puppy everyone was impressed by the speed, slickness and performance...

HELP HELP

Regards

SmartCyber

[MU]

Not certain, but this might be related:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=36944

I would do this:
exit to prompt.
type:

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rm -rf /tmp
reboot

Instead of "reboot" you also can hit CTRL-ALT-Del.

Mark

[SmartCyber]

Well I tried your method and I solved a million probs now here is how I am handling the problems

Did a clean install to all PCs then...

add this to rc.sysinit just after

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ln -s /proc/mounts /etc/mtab

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##############SHUTDOWN RECOVERY################
#If system was not shutdown cleanly, try and recover 
if [ -f /RUNNING ];then 
 echo -n "(System was not SHUTDOWN Cleanly)" >/dev/console 
 rm -f /var/log/X* 
 rm -f /RUNNING
 rm -rf /tmp/* 
 rm -f /var/lock/LCK* 
 rm -f /var/run/*.pid 
 rm -rf /root/tmp 2>/dev/null 
 rm -rf /root/.thumbnails/* 2>/dev/null 
fi 


##############Detect Bad Shut###################
#create a file in / that should be deleted on a clean shutdown
if [ ! -f /RUNNING ];then
 echo 'this file is deleted during a clean shutdown' > /RUNNING
fi

add this to rc.shutdown just below the first

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clear

command

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################Delete RUNNING to avoid Clean#################
rm -f /RUNNING
echo "Puppy is deleting RUNNING..." > /dev/console

I'd have used /tmp but something funny I cannot see the file there if I use it anyway thought of doing it outside.... now I can poweroff like 5000 times without worry....

SmartCyber