EEE update stuff

[dvandom]

This morning, I installed a bunch of updates to my EEE (something I thought I'd been doing all along, but I guess all I'd been doing was downloading packages without installing them). Running into a few changes...including the absence of GMail from the menus, and the fact that my SD card is now apparently read as the D: drive. Trying to go to the card itself yields a blank directory.

Edit: Checking the EEEuser.com forums shows that the GMail issue came up back in May. I tried a few of the suggested fixes (short of going all F9 on my machine) but they didn't work. Ehn. Just bookmarked GMail in Firefox. And I managed to delete the false entry for the SD card in file manager, the D: drive thing is no better or worse, just different.

Comments

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, not updating a linux box isn't nearly the risk that not updating a Windows one is. And if it doesn't work for you, you can (usually, not always) go back and undo the changes. Do you have the SD actually mounted?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

"Actually mounted"? I just stick it in the slot like always...how the EEE is seeing it seems to have changed.

[grant-p.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought you meant it wasn't picking it up when inserted at all. I'm not a linux guru by any stretch, but in some systems (and there's about a bazillion different ones) you have to 'mount' and 'unmount' the hardware manually, basically telling the computer to read it or to stop reading it so you can eject in a safer way. Usually the way to do it is to stick in the SD card, right click the drive, and hit 'mount' or something similar, and the same to unmount. I have to do this on Puppy linux. Ubuntu mounts automatically, but you have to unmount manually, etc.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

what do you get when you type "mount" into a terminal?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Slapped in the face?

Okay, booting up...it says a lot of stuff I don't understand, but I think the relevant line is:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/D: type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,fmask=0111,dmask=0000,
codepage=cp850,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed)

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

What's in /media/D: then?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm guessing that's what it's calling the SD slot now. But it didn't do that before I updated the OS.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Linux has achieved "irritating, confusing upgrades," I guess it is ready for the desktop.

[jarodrussell.livejournal.com]

Hey, if you want, I can help you put that GMail icon on your desktop if you like.

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

Hmm, when I put any sort of removable storage into the USB slot(thumb drive, SD card via adaptor) I just get a folder popup of the card's root directory. Is that what's going on here?

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

No, separate thing. This is when I go to look in removable storage that's already in, it goes as D: rather than MMC-SD card.

[diosoth.livejournal.com]

As long as you can access the stick and its contents without problem, this shouldn't be an issue. My PC detects the cards as removable drive G: when plugged in. C: is the hard disk, D: is my CD-ROM, E: and F: are set up as virtual disk drives through Daemon Tools for ISO usage, so the USB goes to drive G:.