USB sticks mess up system

[jpg153]

Hi,

not yet 100% reproducible, but I have a frequent problem when using USB sticks.
Sometimes they seems to work with no problem at all, but it happens quite often, that the device is shown on the desktop/in thunar
but then disappears after a second or so and it cannot be remounted; at least the automatism don't do so.
Gigolo shows the USB stick either unmounted or mounted, but no way of changing that. It's frozen.

When I change the USB stick to a other model then, it's not recognised.

The above happened to me when using 2 different types/models of USB sticks (different make). It seems there is no difference in the USB slots I use.

When above has happened and I want to shut down and restart, the system prompts me for a password. But regardless which..its never correct.
So I have to use the power button.

Any idea why and where that happened and how to prevent further occurrence?

Thanks.

[Shador]

Maybe hal crashed?

[jpg153]

ok,

if that is possible - why does it happen? And why only with USB sticks?

[Shador]

well, why don't you check first whether it's happening: ps -A | grep hald

[jpg153]

ok,

will do when it happens next time!

[hugok]

Could be hardware.....

[ibka]

I had the same problem once. And it was an USB device (external memory card reader) i had connected, when i removed it i could connect USB sticks without problems.

[jpg153]

Well,

I thought about that as well. However, I want to know what happens when it happens.
If we can then point to the card reader unit, which is the USB interface I use most, I have
a good reason to return it.

[jpg153]

it just happened when I plugged in the USB stick, and here is the outcome in a terminal:

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jpg[~]$ ps -A | grep hald
 2146 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-inpu
 2161 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
 2162 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 2163 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 2164 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 2169 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 2173 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 2174 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
 5832 ?        00:00:00 hald-addon-stor

If I am right, its not a problem of hald...?!

update1:
Both USB sticks I tried (1x FAT32, 1x FAT16) showed failures when plugged into a Win7 machine. Win7 repaired both.
But, that did not solve the problem.
I am now trying other USB ports, directly on the mainboard interface.

[Shador]

Hm, just addons I can see there. Nowhere the daemon itself. I bet when you run gparted from a root console, it complains about not running hal.

Instead of rebooting try to restart hal when it happens again:

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/etc/init.d/hal restart

Not quite sure of the exact name of the file right now and can't check. But should start with hal at least.