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Suse 9.1 USB flash drive weirdness
This is really weird, and hopefully someone here will have an answer.
I have 3 different machines running Suse 9.1 personal edition. Installs went great on all of them (better than the windows install on the dual boot machine, in fact), and everything seems to work great except for one difficulty (so far): USB flash drives. We use Kangaru USB 2.0 flash drives to move data between OS X production machines, Windows corporate required machines, and PC production machines (which I'm attempting to convert to linux).
Here's what's strange. on LinuxMachine A, I plug in Kangaru drive A, and it comes up with a mount point at /media/usb-storage-<longstringofnumbers>. Trying to access that directory results in a locked up window. trying to ls that directory from a command line results in a locked up window.
on LinuxMachine B, I plug in Kangaru drive B, and get the same result. Here's the weird part.
I'd left LinuxMachine A on the back burner for a while, and forgotten about it, but I ended up plugging Kangaru Drive B into it recently, and that one mounted (on /media/usb-storage-<differentlongstringofnumbers>. It works fine.
More data points:
on LinuxMachine A, when I mounted Kangaru Drive B, it still had a locked up mount from Kangaru Drive A (which was no longer plugged in). Oddly, instead of recognizing Kangaru Drive B as /dev/sdb1, it thinks Kangaru Drive A is still attached at that point, and put Kangaru Drive B as /dev/sdc1.
The /etc/fstab file is basically the same between both machines.
There is no specific entry for USB storage. I gather the entry that does the trick is
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
adding the line
/dev/sdb1 /media/usbdrive usbfs noauto 0 0
seems to have no effect.
another strange thing. I just rebooted LinuxMachine A and plugged in Kangaru Drive B (which worked not an hour ago) and now it's hanging up the window again.
in var/log/messages, I get things like "device offlined" "device not ready" "make sure there is a disc in the drive." "submountd: mount failure, no such device or address"
more testing. if I go and delete the /media/usb-storage-<longstringofnumbers> directory right after a reboot, and then plug the USB drive in, it recreates that directory, but the drive mounts and works.
subsequent mountings fail, even if I delete said directory after umounting the drive.
there doesn't seem to be a clean way to unmount it.
Any ideas?
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