usb hotplug stopped working on Fedora Core 6 - any ideas how to troubleshoot?

[Karl Larsen]

Valent Turkovic wrote:
> Hi, I have issues with usb hotplug.
> I used to plug my usb memory sticks and mp3 players and they would 
> automount and gnome would show them on the desktop and open an 
> nautilus window.
>
> How I see kernel sees device when I plug it but no automount happens. 
> I can still manually do 'mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk' but I liked it 
> how it automatically just worked.
> I have two Fedeora Core 6 laptops and I didn't pay attention when it 
> stopped working on which but now automount doesn't work on both of 
> them. Maybe some update broke it?
>
> I have no idea how to troubleshoot it and if this is a bug, and should 
> I report it as a bug and where... so any suggestions are welcome.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Valent from Croatia.
>
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    Please tell us what kernel your using. Also find out what the last 
few update's were by looking at /var/log/yum.log. Look for kernel and 
udev updates.

    On F7 we had that problem and it was corrected by new kernels and 
updated udev. You may be have the F7 problem :-)

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