Created attachment 330403 [details] udevmonitor output Under Fedora 9, whenever I inserted a USB key, it would show up under Places->Computer menu. Although it was not mounted automatically upon just the insertion, if I opened the Places->Computer window, it would be automatically mounted. Under Fedora 10, no removable devices are ever automatically mounted, even if I open the Places->Computer window. Moreover, if I open the Places->Computer window, select the device I want to mount, right-click on it, and select "Mount Volume", the device *still* is not mounted. This isn't a big deal to me, as I normally have a root shell open, and can automatically [un]mount things as needed. But this worked properly under F9. As far as I can tell from the udevmonitor output (attached), udev sees the device normally. Additionally, hal sees the device in at least some manner, because hal starts a process to poll it (/dev/sdb in the follow ps listing): 2464 ? Ss 0:00 hald 2468 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-runner 2634 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-hid-ups: listening on /dev/hiddev1 2650 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/sr0 because it is explicitly disabled 2655 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: no polling on /dev/fd0 because it is explicitly disabled 2657 ? S 0:00 \_ /usr/libexec/hald-addon-cpufreq 2659 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket 2711 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event1 7065 ? S 0:00 \_ hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdb (every 2 sec) The only thing that I have explicitly done that I can think might be related is that I ran hal-disable-polling on /dev/sr0 (per the advice of powertop). But I don't see why that would have affected USB devices.
When F11 Rawhide is cut, I'll install it on my laptop and test to see whether this problem still exists.
existing also on F11
but it works if file system is Fat, not working if NTFS!!! Shall I file a separate bug??
James, Have you tried with the latest hal package in Fedora 10, Fedora 11 or tried Rawhide? In either case, can you let us know whether the issue is still happening, and give the current version of the HAL packages you're using? -- Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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This is still a problem in Fedora 13. Note that FAT32 formatted partitions work fine, but NTFS partitions don't mount