I'm running debian (testing) with a 2.6 kernel and KDE. For some reason any directory that I put under the /media directory gets deleted! I have tried setting the sticky bit, but it doesn't help.

josh@minerva:~$ ls -la /media/
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1024 2005-01-01 05:19 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 1024 2005-01-01 10:48 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2004-12-18 08:56 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2004-12-18 08:56 floppy0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2004-12-18 08:56 usb -> usb0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 2004-12-18 08:56 usb0


there is a listing of the directory. If I for example add the directory /cdrom0, after I restart the system it will be gone! What gives? Is my system possesed? Is this directory haunted?

Ok. I had given up solving this one when I finally posted here, but then I tried a few more things and discovered what the problem was. I vaugely remembered saying yes to installing a program that would manage cdrom devices for me when I first installed debian. Unfortunately I had no Idea what the program was called... On a hunch I went and did a recursive grep for the directory i was trying to create (cdrom0) and got a few hits related to a program called discover. Discover was supposed to be mounting my cdrom devices for me, but didn't appear to be working, and instead it was just deleting those directories although I don't know why. Anyway I ran dpkg-reconfigure on discover1 and shut it off, created my directories, rebooted, and all was well. So the ghost was really a daemon.