Re: hotplug behaviour

S Collier wrote:

> I have been using SUSE Linux for a few months and up to yesterday
> the hotplug system seemed to have been working as I would expect ie:

> It would mount camera when plugged in and unmount when camera was
> unplugged (except the digital camera mounting directory has an
> unwieldy name umpteen characters long :-) ) But from yesterday when> I boot the computer (without the camera plugged in) I see from
> /media that the camera is already mounted. As far as I am aware I
> have not done anything to cause this to occur. (Whenever I boot now> it is mounted) I also notice that a CDROM icon has appeared on the
> desktop alongside the DVD icon. (I only have one optical drive, the> DVD) Has anyone else suffered this irregular behaviour?
>
> Stan.

The CDROM icon has now disappeared from desktop.

Stan.

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S Collier wrote:

>>I have been using SUSE Linux for a few months and up to yesterday
>>the hotplug system seemed to have been working as I would expect ie:

>>It would mount camera when plugged in and unmount when camera was
>>unplugged (except the digital camera mounting directory has an
>>unwieldy name umpteen characters long :-) ) But from yesterday when>>I boot the computer (without the camera plugged in) I see from
>>/media that the camera is already mounted. As far as I am aware I
>>have not done anything to cause this to occur. (Whenever I boot now>>it is mounted) I also notice that a CDROM icon has appeared on the
>>desktop alongside the DVD icon. (I only have one optical drive, the>>DVD) Has anyone else suffered this irregular behaviour?
>>
>
>
> The CDROM icon has now disappeared from desktop.
>


It was probably crash in group of programs that handle hotpluggable
devices that left some unfinished work in /media. Directory used to
mount camera wasn't removed. That doesn't mean that camera is all the

time mounted. Second glitch with non existing, but mounted CD-ROM is probably result of the same event.

My guess is that you can safely remove camera related directory, and it will be restored once you connect camera again.

I've got once trouble with USB HD, that left directory with "umpteen"

characters long name in /media. Removing it didn't changed anything in

hotplug system ability to mount external HD. Actually, work is done in two stages, recognition that is done by hotplug, and mounting done

with subfs, and second part crashes if it is not possible to mount the

media.

Hope this was helpful.

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Rajko M. wrote:


> It was probably crash in group of programs that handle hotpluggable> devices that left some unfinished work in /media. Directory used to> mount camera wasn't removed. That doesn't mean that camera is all
> the time mounted. Second glitch with non existing, but mounted
> CD-ROM is probably result of the same event.
>
> My guess is that you can safely remove camera related directory, and

> it will be restored once you connect camera again.
>
> I've got once trouble with USB HD, that left directory with
> "umpteen" characters long name in /media. Removing it didn't changed

> anything in
> hotplug system ability to mount external HD. Actually, work is done

> in two stages, recognition that is done by hotplug, and mounting
> done with subfs, and second part crashes if it is not possible to
> mount the media.
>
> Hope this was helpful.
>
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> Greetings,
> Rajko.

Thank you for replying Rajko. I did as you suggested and removed the
directory and now everything is back to normal. Thanks again.

Best regards,
Stan.

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