CentOS - Jun 2011 - CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media - haldaemon problem?

USB sticks and cameras used to pop right up on my desktop.  Now they
don't.  I've checked the Gnome "Drives and Media Preferences"
and
nothing has changed -- I have "Mount removable media when inserted"
etc.  (Tried toggling it off and back on, no effect.)

I've logged out and back in, even rebooted.  /var/log/messages shows
the devices are being recognized by udev:

Jun 27 19:53:37 torch kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sde at
scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 27 19:53:37 torch scsi.agent[13576]: disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0
Jun 27 19:53:37 torch udevd[1347]: udev done!
Jun 27 19:53:47 torch udevd[1347]: udev done!

However, that's followed by this:

Jun 27 19:54:07 torch hald[5179]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event
699. Rebasing to 699

I restarted hald (service haldaemon restart) and it picked up one of
the two devices I'd plugged in, but not the other.

Didn't get any response to this last time, but it's still happening,
so I'm trying again.  No clues?


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Bart Schaefer <barton.schaefer at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:15 PM
Subject: CentOS4 desktop has stopped recognizing removable media -
haldaemon problem?
To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>


USB sticks and cameras used to pop right up on my desktop. ?Now they
don't. ?I've checked the Gnome "Drives and Media Preferences"
and
nothing has changed -- I have "Mount removable media when inserted"
etc. ?(Tried toggling it off and back on, no effect.)

I've logged out and back in, even rebooted. ?/var/log/messages shows
the devices are being recognized by udev:

Jun 27 19:53:37 torch kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sde at
scsi11, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Jun 27 19:53:37 torch scsi.agent[13576]: disk at
/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.1/usb1/1-5/1-5:1.0/host11/target11:0:0/11:0:0:0
Jun 27 19:53:37 torch udevd[1347]: udev done!
Jun 27 19:53:47 torch udevd[1347]: udev done!

However, that's followed by this:

Jun 27 19:54:07 torch hald[5179]: Timed out waiting for hotplug event
699. Rebasing to 699

I restarted hald (service haldaemon restart) and it picked up one of
the two devices I'd plugged in, but not the other.