MP3 player fails to mount. [SOLVED]

[Karl Larsen]

Todd Zullinger wrote:
> Mark Haney wrote:
>   
>> Yep, starting udev backup fixed it.
>>     
>
> Oh, glad you worked past my typo (it's udevd -d :).
>
>   
>> I'd have never thought to check to see if that was not running.
>>     
>
> I learned the hard way after poking a bit when my ipod decides not to
> mount automatically.
>
>   
>> I wonder what caused it to fail?
>>     
>
> That I don't know.  I don't think I noticed anything in the logs when
> it has died.  Do you see anything in yours?
>
> It doesn't happen often and I've yet to look much at bugzilla to see
> if someone else has reported this.  I didn't think I had enough info
> to file a bug about it.  But considering that it clearly happens to
> more people than just me, it might be a good idea to see if it's been
> reported and report it if not.  The maintainer may well have better
> ideas for how to debug it and catch what's caused it to die.
>
> A quick search in bugzilla doesn't lead me to anything obvious, but
> there are 47 bugs found for the udev package with udevd in the
> comments and I haven't done anything more than peruse the summaries.
> Would you have time to peak at some of them and file a bug if none
> cover the case of it just dying?  If you do, let me know and I'll add
> a note confirming that it happens for me sometimes too. :)
>
>   
    I just checked and got this:

[root at localhost ~]# ps -A | grep udev
  395 ?        00:00:01 udevd
[root at localhost ~]#

So it's working on this F7 at a random time.

Karl