On Sat, 19 Feb 2005 01:56:04 +0800, Colin Charles <lists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 09:48 -0500, B Wooster wrote: > > What does seem odd to me is that I just looked at the number of > > processes with the word "hotplug" in them - and I find that are 104 > > such things! This can't be normal - is there some configuration on my > > system that is wrong ? The entire ps output | grep hotplug is at the > > bottom. > > No, its not normal. Suggest that you do a "yum -y update" and get the > new kernel and all the new packages and see if there are still issues > > If so, file a bug > -- > Colin Charles, byte@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.bytebot.net/ > "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, > then you win." -- Mohandas Gandhi Just did a update, took 36 hours to complete !!! Anyway, it fixed the hotplug process problem - now don't see any process with "hotplug" in it at all, so presumably it starts, does its thing, and goes away. My USB storage device, etc are all mountable/unmountable, so all is good... Thanks!