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From: Tom McLaughlin <tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org>
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Subject: Re: hald not seeing added disk (some times)
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On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:24 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Of late (and I can't quantify how late), hald seems to fail to see
> removable disks added to the system. I don't see any probes on the
> console and the disk is never mounted. I can mount the disk manually.
> 
> I have dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, polkitd, hald, and hald-runner are
> present. 
> 
> Any idea where to look for why this is happening? It's just a bit
> annoying.

I've been having this problem on and off too.  Not sure if this is
related to the disk occasionally becoming unreadable and the fact that
the device seems to detatch and reattach at random.  I need to get
another usb drive here to see if it's probably OS or hardware related.

tom

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