question about usb drive automount

Dan Nicholson dbn.lists at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 07:59:38 PDT 2007


On 9/5/07, Natalie Protasevich <protasnb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I encountered a problem with hot plugging of the USB storage devices.
> This used to work on dapper system with 2.6.15 kernel (ubuntu), but
> when new kernel was installed, the device can't be auto mounted
> anymore. I looked in the lshal and the Cypress drive for example
> doesn't show up after hot plugging in the database, but as soon as I
> load old kernel everything works fine. Any ideas?

If you've updated from linux-2.6.15 to something more recent, it's
very possible that either your udev or its rule set in
/etc/udev/rules.d are too old. You probably want to talk to the ubuntu
people about their udev package and what's appropriate to use on a
newer kernel.

--
Dan


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