On Jan 11, 2008 9:03 AM, centos@911networks.com wrote:
Now when I connect any USB drive [hard drives & USB sticks], they show up in dmesg, and they are being properly recognized, but I have to mount them by hand.
I've had this happen (without the power failure part) on CentOS 4, and found it to be a problem with the HAL daemon and/or gnome-volume-manager. Did HAL start up properly when the system restarted? Do you have a gnome-volume-manager process running?
As a partly-related aside, can anyone explain why the "usermount" program has disappeared from the standard Gnome menus in CentOS 5? In 3 and 4 it appeared under System Tools -> Disk Management. I presume it's an upstream thing, but a few googlings have not found anything about the motivation for the change.