Re: Solved! USB sticks not recognized
- From: bill <wmaples@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 15:16:48 GMT
On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 00:39:35 +0000, Paul J Gans wrote:
I've solved the USB sticks not being mounted problem on 10.3 and I think
I know why many of you have not seen the problem.
I installed 10.3 from the LiveCD version on two machines, one a Dell
Inspiron 5150 (portable) and the other a Dell Dimension 4400 (desktop).
In both cases when I'd done installing the system and doing the updates
(no new software installed yet on either), an attempt to mount a USB
stick was rejected with the message popup:
hal-storage-mount-removable no <- (action, result)
appearing on the window that normally shows the contents of the USB
stick.
Several others have reported the same bug. The bug was reported to
openSuSE and is listed in its Bugzilla as "solved" in RC1. It was not
solved.
After trying many things too boring to repeat, I did a reinstall on the
4400 desktop, checking after each step if the USB stick was mountable.
It was mountable after the initial install. It mountable was after the
updated kernel was installed. It was mountable after *all* the
"updates" were installed.
Very strange. But OK, that's fine.
I repeated the same process on the 5150 laptop with more assurance.
Surely the install from the LiveCD works and it is the boxed set install
that is broken. I quickly got to the same point on the 5150 and USB
sticks were still being mounted.
That was great! So I set the machine up to boot as I prefer it, into
runlevel 3 (internet, multiuser, no KDE). The live install does not
give you a choice, it puts you directly into runlevel 5, (internet,
multiuser, KDE).
And after rebooting when I went manually (startx) into KDE, a USB stick
would no longer mount! Same error message as above.
I reversed the initial setting to boot directly into runlevel 5 and
whammo! The USB stick mounts. Works this way on both machines.
So on my two machines at least, booting first into runlevel 3 and then
going to runlevel 5 results in NO USB mounts. Booting directly to
runlevel 5 results in USB mounts with no problems.
So for some reason, that's the problem. It is almost certainly some
configuration variable set in runlevel 3 and carried over into runlevel
5 that is wrong. One hopes the openSuSE will, eventually, fix this.
By the way, when USB sticks won't mount, neither will CDs or DVDs, for
any of you having that problem too.
A question: how many of you out there have your 10.3 set to boot to
runlevel 3? And if you do, when you then go into runlevel 5, can you
mount a USB stick.
Indeed, if some of you, no matter how you are set up, would try this and
report your results, I think we could do the entire community a service.
I think that most of you go directly into the KDE windowing environment
and have had no troubles at all.
Yes indeed! I discovered the same thing on three machines.
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