Baffling situation

[Norm]

Joe Smith wrote:
> Norm wrote:
>> If I boot tp level 3 and do some command line admin stuff then switch 
>> to a user account and continue to open  a gui interface my thumb 
>> drive is not permitted to mount. ...
>
> How exactly do you "continue to open  a gui interface"?
>
> You may need to formally switch to runlevel 5 and log in in order to 
> get everything in place to manage the auto-mounting and permissions.
>
> <Joe
>
I tried both editing the fstab file  which did not help then I tried 
switching to run level 5 rather than startx from level 3. The telinit 
command seemed to make the difference.  My guess is some where it is a 
bit of a sequence issue.  Rather than an issue it is more an interesting 
anomaly situation