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On Monday 04 January 2010 12:55:34 Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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> Recently, I have had to reboot in order to recover the function of |
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> automatic mounting of USB Flash drives, after some activity, such as |
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> mounting and umounting. This is happening on two AMD64 systems. |
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> I am often able to unmount manually (# umount /media/KINGSTON , for |
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> example). All of my flash drives have labels, and usually they mount on |
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> /media, when plugged in. However, not always, but often, when I have |
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> unmounted one of them, the name stays visible on Nautilus, and it is |
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> impossible to mount it again by plugging it in. |
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> Another time, I reorganized the partitions on a flash drive, into one |
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> partition. After this, I was unable to plug it in to mount it. |
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> Uniformly, the expected behavior is recovered after rebooting. |
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> I am using these drives to maintain git repositories of subdirectories, so |
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> I need to be able to access various drives on demand, by pluggint them in. |
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> I am not sure where to look for help. The USB guide, etc. didnt seem to |
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> help. Is there an init script that I can restart to recover the volume |
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> management function? |
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> Thank you for any ideas. |
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All I can say (I don't use Gnome and Nautilus to be more helpful with the |
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specifics) is that there is a difference between mounting a device via hal and |
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mounting it manually. I recall that you can't mix the two - when I tried it |
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on my machine (using Konqueror) it wouldn't work. I think hal complained, but |
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can't recall off hand. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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