USB problems KDE-4.10/F18

[Colin J Thomson]

On Tuesday 26 Feb 2013 07:08:07 Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 02/26/13 06:37, Colin J Thomson wrote:
> > 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....

I do but omitted to mention that I checked "messages" as well.

Note..
After an update today, the Camera is now fine but not the USB pen drive, which
maybe related to this bug:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315065

Colin
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