Couldn't think of a better subject line. I've been having some odd problems that I can't seem to fix. I recently upgraded to the latest kernel (32bit) from the repositories (I had been running the stock 10.2 32 bit kernel). The update itself went ok, but on restart the problems started. First, I had no sound. To "restart" sound, the only solution that works repeatedly is to start YAST, delete the sound card (Sound Blaster Live5.1) and add it back in again. But... when I delete the sound card, the desktop crashes. This happens every single time with no errors logged (that I can see) in messages or the xorg logs. To restart the desktop, the easy solution is to log out and back in again... and then all seems OK. Then... this weekend, I plugged in my USB drive. It was mounted properly, and I started deleting (a lot of) files... 2 Java programming projects.. exports of a svn and a cvs repository. This went OK for a few seconds, and then an error popped up saying that it was unable to delete a file (changes each time I try this). I cannot delete files or write to the USB disk after this happens. If I remount the drive ("safely remove", unplug and plug it back in) I can continue... for a few files, and then it errors out again. I tried this as root from terminal, and again, it works for a few files, and then all of a sudden the drive becomes a "Read Only Filesystem", and I cannot delete files again until I remount the drive. Sometimes I can delete a lot of files before this happens, sometimes none. Remount.. try again. The exact same thing happens when I try to copy files to the drive.. the first one or two files are copied successfully, and then the drive changes to ReadOnly (which of course generates errors by the copy process that it cannot write to a RO device), and has to be remounted to get RW back. I tried reformatting the USB drive, but all it would do (after unmounting and attempting to repartition or reformat) is error out with a "system error". This happens both on the terminal/console, and with the YAST partitioner. I rebooted back to the old kernel to see if things were messed up there. There I had sound, but no USB at all (and nothing I did would convince it to work even though all USB hubs were shown in the hardware list, and lsmod showed the USB module loaded)... boot back to the new kernel... no sound until I reinstall the sound card in YAST, and then of course.. log out and back in to fix the crashed desktop... but at least USB devices (mouse/keyboard) work with this kernel. So... that's the long story... now the questions (I've asked some of them here before but not got any answers).. these are the two I'd really like to solve.. or at least understand: - Why does deleting the sound card crash the desktop? This happens each and every time I delete the sound card with YAST. This has happened to me before on previous SUSE versions, and no one either believes me :-) or has ever seen this behavior and has no suggestions. But I'm hoping maybe... just maybe I can get to the bottom of this. - Why is my USB drive being mounted as RW, but at some point during accessing it does it magically convert to RO? This happens when attempting to delete files and when trying to copy files to the drive. (yes I checked, there is loads of room on the drive.. it's a 40GB drive (FAT32) partition with only about 5GB of data). C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org