Greetings,

I apologize that my first transaction at the bank of your collective wisdom is a withdrawl, but I must ask a question.

I have used Slackware since 1994 and installed and configured everything hundreds of times. I have just switched to Fedora Core 5 and I'm now basically a babe in the woods again.

Anyway, Last night I was running my fresh install of FC5 on my Gateway7515 laptop, and everything was going very well. I was running on battery and I ignored the low batt warnings until it finally shut off.

Now USB drive and CDROM drive events don't cause the media to automount anymore. I tried mounting the install DVD onto /mnt as root and the system spotted it and put an icon on the desktop for me, which suggests the problem is fairly low-level.

I figure that since the filesystem didn't unmount cleanly or because some semaphore is stuck floating around, the events are not registering.

I "tail -f"ed /var/log/messages and plugged and unplugged my USB drive and didn't see anything come up.

automount is running, but I dunno if this is the cuplrit. Here's the /etc/auto.master contents (minus comments):
/net /etc/auto.net

I'm hoping I just missed something dumb and obvious. Can anyone spot it?

Thanks.

this happened to me a couple of times.
what I did was rebooted two times and the stuff started working. Its like the first time when power goes off,it doesnt get unmounted. so the first time you boot everything loads except your usb and all. Next if you reboot once more, everything get unmounted properly and when you are again it should detect everything.

That's what I was expecting. But it took a couple of reboots for some strange reason. It seems to be happy again.

thanks.