Comment 12 for bug 16428

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto (fabbione) wrote :

(In reply to comment #11)
> "After you insert the key, can you please send us the output of lsmod? and after
> can you try to modprobe sd_mod? (scsi disk support) and see the output of dmesg?"
>
> I no longer run this kernel, and (as I am on a work computer right now) am not
> about to install a broken kernel. However, I believe that I can answer the
> questions I think you're asking here.
>
> IIRC with the .1 kernal, all of the appropriate modules were loading, and the
> kernel was finding /dev/sdX. In fact, the _detection_ phase of the operation
> was just about perfect, with dmesg reporting pretty much what it should.
>
> The only problem I could see was that pmount wasn't being asked to run, for
> whatever reason. I could type pmount /dev/sdX partname and it would mount
> itself just fine, and would even unmount itself if I were to remove the USB key.
> Seemingly, the only breakage was whatever triggers pmount.
>

Well clearly this is not a kernel problem. Given that the device is there,
the kernel has already completed its job eons before.

Martin please reassignt his bug to the appropriate package.

Fabio