USB device icon does not display on Gnome desktop and gnome-volume-manager does not start when logging in as root
Issue
- Hotplugging external usb hard drive fails for root user
- In the case of a standard user login, when I plug a USB hard drive, it gets automatically mounted and an icon appears on the desktop. However for some reason if I am logged in as root this doesn't happen.
- When I log in as a normal user, the gnome-volume-manager is running, but when I log in as root user it is not running even though it is in the session startup list
- I tried to run gnome-volume-manager manually and it failed to start.
Environment
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.9
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0
- kernel 2.6.18-8.el5
- Gnome desktop
- Logged in as root user
- USB hard drive plugged in.
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