Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 142788
Desktop removable disk icons stop being created
Last modified: 2013-03-05 22:42:17 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: After a fresh boot, inserted USB disk drives will only create new icons on the desktop for approximately 15 minutes. The icon will stay on the desktop for as long as the disk is plugged in, but if it is unmounted and re-inserted more than about 15 minutes after boot the disk will be mounted but no icon will show up on the desktop or in Nautilus. The only way to unmount the drive at this point is to use the command line. During the 15 minute window my two USB disk drives can be inserted/mounted and unmounted with the icons menu as many times as you want. If no USB disk drives are inserted in the first 15 min. drives will still not show up on the desktop or in Nautilus after the window. In summary, desktop icons show up for inserted USB drives as expected for about 15 minutes after boot up. After time has past, newly inserted drives will not have an associated icon, but will be mounted to a file in /media. I am using 15 minutes as an estimate, I do not know exactly when the failure occurs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.1.0-5 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start computer. 2. Plugin a USB disk drive. 3. Watch desktop icon appear. 4. Unmount disk with icon menu. 5. Wait about 15 minutes. 6. Plugin a USB disk drive. 7. No icon will appear. Actual Results: No icon is created on the desktop Expected Results: A hard disk icon should appear on the desktop. Additional info: udev, dbus, hald, and gnome-volume-manager are all running after the failure occurred.
Using Ctrl-R to refresh the desktop does NOT make any icons appear.
Are there any interesting usb related messages produced by dmesg ?
Dmesg shows the disks being mounted and unmounted, nothing as far as errors.
This bug may be related to bug # 130859.
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