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[Marc Chamberlin <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/3/2011 9:10 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
> * Anton Aylward<anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>  [01-03-11 11:49]:
> > Marc Chamberlin said the following on 01/03/2011 12:25 AM:
> > > I recently upgraded a number of modules on my openSuSE 11.2 system and
> > >
> > > have now lost the ability to plug in my USB external Passport hard drive
> > > and have it automounted under /media like it use to...  What happened
> > > and how do I recover this nifty feature?
> > >
> > > I have gone into the Device Notifier Settings and told it to Enable
> > > automatic mounting of removable media as well as checked the
> > > Automatically mount removable medial when attached. No joy.. The Device
> > > Notifier does not even detect that the USB drive was plugged in. The
> > > tool - lsusb shows it however, and I can manually mount it, a PITA...
> > This sometimes happens to me.
> > If you do a 'ps -ef' you might see things like
> >
> > hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0
> >
> > which means my CDROM isn't automounting.
> > Or I reboot and it is.
> > Sometimes it's USB, or my memory cards.
> > I haven't figured this one out, just observed it.
> >
> > Which means its 'system' not KDE.
> try as root:  rchald restart
Thanks Patrick for the suggestion... I did restart the hal daemon but no 
joy still...   Marc Chamberlin


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