[CentOS] CentOS 4.5: Automounted USB disks eventually stop appearing on desktop
John Newbigin
jnewbigin at ict.swin.edu.au
Tue Aug 28 06:57:59 UTC 2007
I too have had this problem. I didn't find a real solution but I did
find a number of bugs in hald. Restarting that and/or running it in
verbose mode might help narrow down your problem.
John.
Bart Schaefer wrote:
> This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights.
>
> When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in
> e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the
> desktop. I can right-click on this icon to "eject" the filesystem,
> etc.
>
> Eventually, though, for no obvious reason, this stops working and I no
> longer get an icon when I insert a USB device. The automount is still
> happening; I can still navigate to the device under /media with
> Nautilus, and I can still umount it from a shell as a nonprivileged
> user.
>
> What process is supposed to be noticing the new mount and adding the
> icon? Any clues as to why it would stop doing so?
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John Newbigin
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Faculty of Information and Communication Technologies
Swinburne University of Technology
Melbourne, Australia
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