Curious 11.4 kde fault

[ajohnw]

Hoping some one else has experienced this and know what caused it.

I left my PC powered up and doing absolutely nothing for 1 week. When I came back and plugged in a usb drive the system failed to pick it up. No notification and no signs of it in dolphin.

Logged out and back into kde and it worked again.

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[phanisvara]

On Tue, 17 May 2011 14:36:04 +0530, ajohnw
<ajohnw@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:

>
> Hoping some one else has experienced this and know what caused it.
>
> I left my PC powered up and doing absolutely nothing for 1 week. When I
> came back and plugged in a usb drive the system failed to pick it up. No
> notification and no signs of it in dolphin.
>
> Logged out and back into kde and it worked again.
>

never happened to me since i don't leave my PC on w/o using it for so
long, but i seem to remember that there used to be some power management
bugs with certain hardware configurations. KDE 4.6.0 isn't what KDE
considers 'stable;' that would be 4.6.3 now, with not much changes in
functionality / features, but several bug fixes.

i've seen it (rarely) that USB sticks didn't get picked up automatically,
but this didn't happen in a consistent or reproducible way. if you don't
feel like logging out & in, you can always type "fdisk -l" into a (root)
terminal and mount the partition you want manually.


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phani.