[PLUG] Mandriva hotplug problem

[Adam Zion <azion1995@verizon.net>]

	OK, odd problem. To put it simply, hotplugging no longer works on my 
Mandriva 2006 box, where it did until recently. Whet happens is that, 
for instance, I insert a USB flash drive, and an entry for "removable" 
appears in the /mnt directory. That's good. Unfortunately, it's empty. 
That's bad. And my USB printer still works, so this rules out a problem 
w/the USB ports in general (yes, I've switched the connections- no effect).

	Now, if I run harddrake2, I see an entry for this USB disk, and I can 
manually unmount the "phantom" entry mentioned above, and then
successfully mount the correct entry to /mnt/removable. But that doesn't
help me w/my digital camera.

	Also, when I insert a CD-ROM I also have to manually mount it. It seems 
as if hotplug has died on this PC. Mike Leone suggested that perhaps an 
update damaged the hotplug scripts, but when I reinstalled the original 
ones from the Mandriva DVD, it didn't do the trick.

	Thoughts? I'm half-tempted to say the heck w/it, + do a repair
installation from the DVD, but I'd like to work this out in a more
subtle way first.

	Thx.

--
Adam Zion, MCSE+I

I'm gonna be iron like a lion in Zion. * Bob Marley

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