usb hotplug stopped working on Fedora Core 6 - any ideas how to troubleshoot?

[Valent Turkovic]

On 9/14/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/13/07, Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
> > Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > grep udev rpm
> > > udev-095-17.fc6                               Tue 16 Jan 2007 11:20:16
> > > AM CET
> >       I can't tell but the RPM you loaded is from last January and it
> > may be the problem.
>
> sorry that should have been:
>
> # rpm -qa |grep udev
> udev-095-17.fc6
>
> I have no updates since that packet is the latest one.
>
> I did:
> yum clean all
> yum update
>
> and no updates came, that is the latest udev that FC6 has in it's repos.
>
> Do you have some other suggestions?
>
>
> > >
> > > uname -a
> > > Linux fedora 2.6.22.2-42.fc6 #1 SMP Wed Aug 15 12:34:26 EDT 2007 i686
> > > i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > >
> > This is the next to last kernel for F7 and it should be fine IF you have
> > a udev that works. I think you might try to yum install a later udev.
> >
>
> I'm on a FC6 box...
>
> > > What else feedback do you need?
> > >
> > > On 9/12/07, *Karl Larsen* <k5di at zianet.com <mailto:k5di at zianet.com>>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > >     Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > >     > Hi, I have issues with usb hotplug.
> > >     > I used to plug my usb memory sticks and mp3 players and they would
> > >     > automount and gnome would show them on the desktop and open an
> > >     > nautilus window.
> > >     >
> > >     > How I see kernel sees device when I plug it but no automount
> > >     happens.
> > >     > I can still manually do 'mount /dev/sdb1 /media/disk' but I liked it
> > >     > how it automatically just worked.
> > >     > I have two Fedeora Core 6 laptops and I didn't pay attention
> > >     when it
> > >     > stopped working on which but now automount doesn't work on both of
> > >     > them. Maybe some update broke it?
> > >     >
> > >     > I have no idea how to troubleshoot it and if this is a bug, and
> > >     should
> > >     > I report it as a bug and where... so any suggestions are welcome.
> > >     >
> > >     > Thank you.
> > >     >
> > >     > Valent from Croatia.
> > >     >
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> > >         Please tell us what kernel your using. Also find out what the last
> > >     few update's were by looking at /var/log/yum.log. Look for kernel and
> > >     udev updates.
> > >
> > >         On F7 we had that problem and it was corrected by new kernels and
> > >     updated udev. You may be have the F7 problem :(
>

Anybody? Is udev dead on Fedora Core 6?

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