mounting digital camera sometimes causes system hang

[Martin C]

--- Kenn Munro <kenn-mwSrj/bF9lKNls3PewDF2w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I have a Panasonic DMC-LC33 digital camera that I
> access using
> usb-storage.  Once every month or two (maybe 10% of
> the time I connect
> it), mounting it makes my system hang.  The keyboard
> is unresponsive and
> the num lock light remains on (doesn't flash and
> won't turn off).  I'm
> using Red Hat 9, kernel 2.4.20-28.9.  Does anyone
> have any suggestions
> as to what the problem might be or how to fix it?
> 
> My fstab entry is:
> 
> /dev/sda1     /mnt/camera        msdos  
> noauto,user,owner,rw 0 0
I mount digital cameras and USB readers with vfat
type, maybe you can try that.
In KDE sometimes kdeinit keeps using the directory and
I can't umount. I'm trying KDE 3.2, maybe it's a KDE bug.

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