booted from X if I unplug USB external drive

[James Wilkinson]

Maurizio Ungaro wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My USB external disk doesn't go to sleep, even if it's not mounted.
> It was sleeping properly (even mounted!) with Fedora 9.
> Furthermore, if I unplug it (to make it sleep), I get booted from X.
> 
> var/log only shows this:
> Sep 28 12:44:50 mauri kernel: usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3
> Sep 28 12:45:04 mauri kdm[1950]: X server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly
> 
> I'm using Fedora11 x86_64 - I'm actually not sure if this
> Fedora-related at all... if not, I apologize.

Do you have any partitions mounted when you unplug the drive? (You
shouldn’t).

James.

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