USB problems KDE-4.10/F18

[Ed Greshko]

On 02/26/13 06:37, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have recently been having USB removable drive problems, on plugging in my 
> camera or USB pen drive the device notifier does not pop up, if I click on the 
> icon no devices are shown.
> Sometimes the pen drive can be accessed and it shows up in the device notifier 
> but I am asked for my root password:
>
> "Authentication is required to mount /dev/mapper/mpathbp1"
>
> All was fine about a week ago so I guess some update has caused 
> this problem. Any ideas which packages are related to this as I am puzzled to 
> what it could be.
>
> This is on F18/KDE-4.10
>
> The devices are seen in dmsg and in kcmshell4 kcmusb.. 
>
> CD/DVD drive is fine and appear in the device notifier once a disk 
> is put in.
>
> It might not be KDE related, but I'm not sure. Is anyone else seeing this?
>
> I'll pop over to bugzilla and kde.bugs to see what I can find later on in the 
> week.

In cases such as this the first thing I do is "tailf /var/log/messages" as I plugin the device to see if the kernel is detecting anything....



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