usbdisk icons on desktop in Hoary

[Thomas Beckett]

On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 13:49:58 +0000, Mark Cooke
<markcooke.interweb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 10:57:41 +0000, Thomas Beckett
> <thomas.beckett at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any idea wehen this fix was done?
> > I updated everything last light (about 7pm UTC) and the 2.6.10-4
> > kernel then hard locked my entire system just as gnome loaded.
> 
> Same here, I had to boot into single user mode, but no desktop *this
> is the second time it's happened).
> 
> > the inotify boot option in solved it, but then you get none of the
> > inotify stuff.
> 
> will give this a try.
>

the option you need is noinotify. 
edit your /boot/grub/menu.1st file and add noinotify to the end of the
kernel line.

Alternatively booting from the 2.6.10-3 kernel still works fine and
can be used until the 10-4 kernel is fixed.


> I do agree the one of the original posts, in that the automounting is
> still very flaky, one minute it will automount my cdrom/flash reader
> etc.., and display the icon on the desktop, the next it refuses to
> display it and somethimnes not even mount it.

I understand that this is all related to the same problem - inotify
and its interaction with gamin... they are working hard on it so it
will be sorted redy for release date in  6 weeks time