Re: [CentOS] Automounter problem in C5.5?

Mark wrote:

Last night I was having some bizarre problems with my USB ports. I couldn't access one of my scanners, and when I started moving plugs around, it seemed as though I lost more peripherals. For some reason, I did NOT lose the laser printer, but my one scanner and my scan/fax/printer disappeared and wouldn't come back.

I figured it might be the automounter, so I tried plugging in a USB flash drive, and it did not get mounted either.

I rebooted and the problem disappeared (duh).

Questions:

1. I'm suspected this was an automounter failure - is that the most

likely culprit?

Or a usb driver problem. Or (I hope not) a hardware problem.

2. How do I restart the automounter when it dies, or can I? I've hit

this issue before once or twice and only rebooting seems to make it right again.

As root, or sudo, service autofs restart

mark