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 -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================
