Re: Device notifier strangeness

[Edward J. Shornock <ed.shornock@gmail.com>]

* Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com> [13-03-2014 03:31 EET]:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not sure when it happened, but I am running sid on my desktop, with the
> latest kde 4.11. Also note that I also have a Dell laptop with much the
> same configuration.
> 
[..]
> On the laptop, it works as expected, and device-notifier mounts the drives.
> Note that the behavior used to be the same on defiant (the workstation) as
> on the laptop. I have done no configuration on either machine, so I'm not
> exactly sure where to look. I went through the device-notifier settings,
> and they look the same. Anyone got any ideas
> on what might be broken on the destop?

I've had similar problems but haven't been able to work out what is
causing it (the plasmoid itself, udev, udisks, etc.). On a few occasions
running something like

	fdisk -l /dev/sdX

has caused the device notifier to wake up and notice the device.