Mark Hull-Richter wrote: > I left out part of this (that I did after sending the message). > > Apparently the problem isn't so much the flash drive as what happens > when the icon on the gnome desktop doesn't go away - it refuses to be > removed. > > I can manually mount the flash drive to its proper mount point, and > access it through the icon, but when I unmount it, the icon doesn't go > away, and after that, until/unless I manually remount the drive again, > the icon doesn't work (and won't unmount - duh!). > > Now I'm not sure if this is a gnome issue or a CentOS issue. If I log > out and log back in, the icon still doesn't go away (implicating the > OS), but when I reboot, all is well again, for a while.... > > Thanks. > > PS: John, the drive was not actually mounted when this happened, so a dd > would not work, either - it didn't even matter if the drive was plugged > in or not - the icon was there and unusable/misbehavin'. > yes, well, the finger's pointing in an entirely different direction now:-) Right at the man with the nose in the corner of the garden. Do you have a problem in KDE? If you have a problem in KDE, does this command (as root) help? chmod -x /usr/bin/autorun (don't forget chmod +x /usr/bin/autorun later) Do you have a problem in runlevel 3, with no GUI at all. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Please do not reply off-list