USB flash drives won't mount

[David Fletcher]

Using updated FC5 with KDE, my USB flash drive no longer mounts i.e. I used to 
get the little window appearing on the screen asking me what I wanted to do 
with this device I just plugged in, but no longer.

Now, the LED on the flash drive flashes away for a couple of seconds, then 
stops, then nothing. I can plug the same drive into my son's computer which 
probably hasn't been updated for a couple of weeks and it "just works".

I get a load of error messages when booting that were not there before, which 
are associated with this problem I'm guessing.

I've pruned the last version of /var/log/messages down to the last reboot. 
It's now about 50K in size. Does anybody know what's causing this problem, or 
shall I post the log file?

Dave Fletcher

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