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