Remounting iPod problem[SOLVED]

[DiscoJason]

My setup with my iPod used to work just fine, but sometime recently it has stopped working. It used to be that when I would unplug my iPod (after unmounting it first) from the firewire, I would see the entry for it go away from Storage Media in KDE and when I would plug it back in, it would appear again, though mounted to a different /dev/s*. This was when it all worked fine.

Now, when I unplug the iPod (after unmounting it first), the drive doesn't disappear from Storage Media in KDE. When I try to plug it back in, it doesn't appear with a new entry and I can't remount the existing entry. The only way for me to be able to use it again is to reboot the computer, where it detects the iPod and boots into KDE all mounted up and ready to go. I can then unmount and mount it as I wish, until I unplug the iPod and plug it back in, in which case I have to reboot to get it to all work again.

I hadn't made any changes to the hald/ivman/dbus combo. I did have to unemerge and remerge udev to fix something which broke where suddenly the machine wasn't giving video permissions to the users group, which had been working just ifne all along. So, some emerge I did broke that, but I fixed it with the unmerge/remerge of udev. Now, it looks like I have this problem with the iPod. The interesting thing is I can plug in my PSP and it gets detected and mounted just fine.

I am looking in my fstab after I unplug the iPod and I still see the entry where it points to the original /dev spot. So, it looks like when I unplug it, the machine doesn't remove that fstab entry for me automatically.

Any ideas?

[DiscoJason]

Actually, now that I have checked, my PSP won't mount, either, unless it was connected at bootup. I was thinking it did, but I was wrong. So, what would be responsible for it detecting removable devices only as long as they were connected on startup? Once you disconnect them, you can no longer mount them again.

[DiscoJason]

Got it fixed. Looks like my fstab had some tabs in it and it was causing problems. I removed them and it all seems to work now. Not sure how the tabs got in there, though, since I hadn't edited the file.