Baffling situation
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Thu Dec 21 02:33:30 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 17:01 -0800, Norm wrote:
> If I boot tp level 3 and do some command line admin stuff then switch to
> a user account and continue to open a gui interface my thumb drive is
> not permitted to mount. At the gui level if I log out as a user and log
> in as root the drive loads, I can then switch back to a user account and
> the drive is loaded, my other choice is to go from boot through run
> level 3 and open the gui as a user and the drive is mounted. I have not
> checked but assume that I could also go straight to run level 5 and open
> as a user and the drive would be mounted.
> What I do as root at run level 3 does not seem to be the problem, it
> seems that the simple logging in as root is the problem. The choices
> to work around this are easy enough but I would like to understand why
> the issue occurs, Have others run across a similar situation?
> Norm
Could you make an fstab entry for it? That's troubleshooting with a
shotgun. Ric
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