CentOS - Aug 2007 - CentOS 4.5: Automounted USB disks eventually stop appearing on desktop

This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights.

When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in
e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the
desktop.  I can right-click on this icon to "eject" the filesystem,
etc.

Eventually, though, for no obvious reason, this stops working and I no
longer get an icon when I insert a USB device.  The automount is still
happening; I can still navigate to the device under /media with
Nautilus, and I can still umount it from a shell as a nonprivileged
user.

What process is supposed to be noticing the new mount and adding the
icon?  Any clues as to why it would stop doing so?

I too have had this problem.  I didn't find a real solution but I did 
find a number of bugs in hald. Restarting that and/or running it in 
verbose mode might help narrow down your problem.

John.

Bart Schaefer wrote:
> This is just a minor annoyance, but I wondered if anyone has any insights.
> 
> When I first boot the system and log in to Gnome, and then plug in
> e.g. a USB stick or compact flash card, I get an icon for it on the
> desktop.  I can right-click on this icon to "eject" the
filesystem,
> etc.
> 
> Eventually, though, for no obvious reason, this stops working and I no
> longer get an icon when I insert a USB device.  The automount is still
> happening; I can still navigate to the device under /media with
> Nautilus, and I can still umount it from a shell as a nonprivileged
> user.
> 
> What process is supposed to be noticing the new mount and adding the
> icon?  Any clues as to why it would stop doing so?
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