Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2017 schrieb Curt Howland:
> Honestly I have no idea, just Debian default whatever that is.
> 
> Sorry, I guess that would have been a good thing to put in the opening message.
> 
> Debian Stable, mostly default except for TDE of course.
> 
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp <office@...> wrote:
> > Am Montag, 18. Dezember 2017 schrieb Curt Howland:
> >> Hi.
> >>
> >> I have "removable media" selected to show up as desktop icons, and for
> >> the most part memory sticks do so. I've noticed that some external
> >> drives don't, however. As soon a they're mounted, the icon vanishes
> >> from the desktop.
> >>
> >> If it happened with all of them, or none of them, I'd understand. What
> >> doesn't make sense is that it's seemingly random. I have 1-TB USB
> >> drives that vanish, and seemingly identical drives which remain
> >> visible.
> >>
> >> Am I just late for the party and this has been known forever?

Well ... let me put it this way: this problem comes most likely from systemd. It does not exist with eudevd.

"Maybe" the systemd guys will eventually release a fix, but don't count on it.


Nik



> >>
> >> Curt-
> >>
> >
> > let me guess: you use systemd-udevd, don't you?




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