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?
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.
Thanks.
Mark
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:
- 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.
- 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
On 08/10/2010 10:51 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us informed us:
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Or a usb driver problem. Or (I hope not) a hardware problem.
- 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
I offer this as another data point. First noticed yesterday -- status icon for my external HP1040r DVD burner became hopeless out of sync with reality. This is a fully updated CentOS 5 box. Looks like the kernel was installed on July 25:
[root@madeleine log]# grep kernel yum.log <snip> Jul 25 13:17:14 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i386 Jul 25 13:17:31 Installed: kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i686 Jul 25 13:17:42 Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i686 [root@madeleine log]#
Regards
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Robert kerplop@sbcglobal.net wrote:
On 08/10/2010 10:51 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us informed us:
<snip> > Or a usb driver problem. Or (I hope not) a hardware problem. >
Don't think so - after reboot everything works normally. Even before, the laser printer continued to function properly.
As root, or sudo, service autofs restart
I offer this as another data point. First noticed yesterday -- status icon for my external HP1040r DVD burner became hopeless out of sync with reality. This is a fully updated CentOS 5 box. Looks like the kernel was installed on July 25:
[root@madeleine log]# grep kernel yum.log <snip> Jul 25 13:17:14 Updated: kernel-headers-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i386 Jul 25 13:17:31 Installed: kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i686 Jul 25 13:17:42 Installed: kernel-PAE-2.6.18-194.8.1.el5.i686 [root@madeleine log]#
marichter 2.6.18-194.8.1.el5 #1 SMP Thu Jul 1 19:04:48 EDT 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux centos-release-5-5.el5.centos.x86_64
Oh, right - I had been running the 194.3.1 kernel, but I forgot to change it when I rebooted. That might be relevant, too.
Mark
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