Mount issue

[Jim Smith]

Robert Spanjaard wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:15:21 -0600, debiani386 at gmail.com wrote:
>
>   
>> I have read that ubuntu (and pretty much any linux running 2.6.18 and
>> newer) has this power conservation feature that limits the power output
>> to the usb. A normal usb will output about 5 volts of electricty. I
>> believe the power save feature cuts it in half, so a few devices, such
>> as wireless cards, external hard drives, thumbdrives, and a few other
>> devices may not work. What i ended up doing to get around that was to
>> create 99-custom.rules in the /etc/udev/rules.d directory. I dont think
>> that showing mine as an example would be a good idea because mine is
>> used for my usb wireless device
>>     
>
> Although that doesn't explain this particular error (an illegal mount 
> point has nothing to do with power requirements), I would be interested 
> in the rule you created.
>
>   
The illegal mount point appears to be caused by a syntax error in some
file which governs the mounting process. If the file can be found and
the error corrected or eliminated I hope the problem will be solved.

Jim