Re: Baffling situation

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On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 17:01 -0800, Norm wrote:
> If I boot tp level 3 and do some command line admin stuff then switch to 
> a user account and continue to open  a gui interface my thumb drive is 
> not permitted to mount. At the gui level if I log out as a user  and log 
> in as root the drive loads, I can then switch back to a user account and 
> the drive is loaded, my other choice is to go from boot through run 
> level 3 and open the gui as a user and the drive is mounted.  I have not 
> checked but assume that I could also go straight to run level 5 and open 
> as a user and the drive would be mounted.
> What I do as root at run level 3 does not seem to be the problem, it 
> seems that the simple logging in as root  is the problem.  The choices 
> to work around this are easy enough but I would like to understand why 
> the issue occurs,  Have others run across a similar situation?
> Norm

Could you make an fstab entry for it?  That's troubleshooting with a
shotgun. Ric

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