On Tuesday 26 Feb 2013 07:08:07 Ed Greshko wrote:

On 02/26/13 06:37, Colin J Thomson wrote:

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I have recently been having USB removable drive problems, on plugging in my camera or USB pen drive the device notifier does not pop up, if I click on the icon no devices are shown. Sometimes the pen drive can be accessed and it shows up in the device notifier but I am asked for my root password:

"Authentication is required to mount /dev/mapper/mpathbp1"

All was fine about a week ago so I guess some update has caused this problem. Any ideas which packages are related to this as I am puzzled to what it could be.

This is on F18/KDE-4.10

The devices are seen in dmsg and in kcmshell4 kcmusb..

CD/DVD drive is fine and appear in the device notifier once a disk is put in.

It might not be KDE related, but I'm not sure. Is anyone else seeing this?

I'll pop over to bugzilla and kde.bugs to see what I can find later on in the week.

In cases such as this the first thing I do is "tailf /var/log/messages" as I plugin the device to see if the kernel is detecting anything....

I do but omitted to mention that I checked "messages" as well.

Note.. After an update today, the Camera is now fine but not the USB pen drive, which maybe related to this bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315065

Colin

On 02/28/13 09:36, Kevin Kofler wrote:

Ed Greshko wrote:

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In cases such as this the first thing I do is "tailf /var/log/messages" as I plugin the device to see if the kernel is detecting anything....

Slightly OT, but you should be using "journalctl -f" instead these days.

Thanks for that reminder. Old habits are hard to break..... Or maybe it is habits of old people are hard to break.... :-)