USB detection fails after a few days

[Aart Koelewijn]

On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:46:05 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> 
> I always have lots things/apps/documents/workspaces active at the same
> time, so rebooting the computer is a rather unpleasant experience.
> 
> Restarting Nautilus doesn't fix the problem. The memory card still shows
> under /dev/sd* (sde1), but it's reported as not mounted. So I am
> thinking the problem is fairly high-level, related to the magic in user
> land that's supposed to automagically detect and mount removable medias
> ? How can I re-initiale this "service" ?
> 

I sometimes have similar problems with lots of aps open for a long time 
(sometimes weeks) Slowly swap will fill up to over 95% and the computer 
will start to react very slow, with which I mean that it can take a 
quarter off a hour before it reacts to a mouseclick. I then usually will 
do things to free swap, f.i. close a number off aps, and if that does not 
help, log out and then log in again. It usually is not necessary to 
reboot.

Aart