On Thursday 13 October 2005 15:44, Ricardo Rodriguez Peralta wrote: SNIP > > Answering to your suggestions: > > - Looked under /mnt and is not listed > - Checked 'Mounted Removable Medium' under KDE's Feel and Look and is not > showing > - Checked etc/fstab and is not listed > - haldaemon service is running and starting at boot (what is this anyway?) > and have checked /var/log/syslog finding the following: > > Oct 13 08:49:44 NX kernel: Initializing USB Mass Storage driver... > Oct 13 08:49:44 NX kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage > devices Oct 13 08:49:44 NX kernel: usb-storage: device found at 2 > Oct 13 08:49:44 NX kernel: usb-storage: waiting for device to settle > before scanning > Oct 13 08:49:44 NX kernel: usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage > Oct 13 08:49:44 NX kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered. > Oct 13 08:49:44 NX udev[13715]: run_program: exec of program failed > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: Vendor: Generic Model: Flash Disk > Rev: 7.78 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: Type: Direct-Access > ANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel > 0, id 0, lun 0, type 0 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: usb-storage: device scan complete > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors > (66 MB) Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: sda: Write Protect is off > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: SCSI device sda: 128000 512-byte hdwr sectors > (66 MB) Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: sda: Write Protect is off > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: sda: assuming drive cache: write through > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, > channel 0, id 0, lun 0 > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX pam_console.dev[13759]: Restoring console > permissions for /dev/sg0 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/generic > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX pam_console.dev[13767]: Restoring console > permissions for /dev/sda /dev/discs/disc1/disc > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc > Oct 13 08:49:49 NX pam_console.dev[13788]: Restoring console > permissions for /dev/sda1 /dev/discs/disc1/part1 > /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 > Oct 13 08:50:15 NX hald[4129]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event > 1073. Rebasing to 1073
So it is going wrong in the hal process (HAL - Hardware Abstraction Layer is a daemon that recognises new hardware and works out what to do with it) Is the 'messagebus' service running? It is essential for hal. derek -- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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