I had already removed the fstab entry, and did a shutdown, reboot- problems 
still remain- no rpmdrake functionality, and the weird no access to text 
files- even new ones, except by right clicking and open with.

Here's the mount output- no usb camera connected.
--------------------------------------------------------------
[wrc1944@localhost wrc1944]$ mount
/dev/hda12 on / type reiserfs (rw,notail)
none on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /proc/bus/usb type usbdevfs (rw)
none on /dev type devfs (rw)
/dev/hda11 on /boot type reiserfs (rw,notail)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,mode=0620)
/dev/hda10 on /home type ext3 (rw)
none on /mnt/cdrom type supermount 
(ro,dev=/dev/scd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
none on /mnt/floppy type supermount 
(rw,sync,dev=/dev/fd0,fs=auto,--,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda1 on /mnt/win_c type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda5 on /mnt/win_d type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda6 on /mnt/win_e type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda7 on /mnt/win_f type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda8 on /mnt/win_g type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda9 on /mnt/win_h type vfat 
(rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,umask=0)
/dev/hda16 on /tmp type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/hda14 on /usr type reiserfs (rw,notail)
/dev/hda15 on /var type reiserfs (rw,notail)



On Wednesday 11 December 2002 06:13 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> Todd Lyons, in a previous post, indicates that /proc/bus/usb should already
> exist if your modules.conf file is properly setup.  The thing to try before
> going through a reinstall is to undo what you last did that led up to the
> current problem: remove the fstab entry you added.  In this case it may be
> a quirk with debian (a more hands-on, doityourself distro) that such a line
> needs to be added to fstab.
>
> Remove the fstab entry, logout and login again and see if you get your
> system back the way it should be.
>
> Mandrake 9.0 uses kernel 2.4.19.  That kernel has been nothing but trouble
> for me on usb and other issues.  The problems prevent me from going to 9.0
> - I am sticking with 8.2 which fully works for me (kernel 2.4.18).
>
> After undoing the fstab entry and relogging in, post, as Todd suggests, the
> results of running "mount" which will output everything mounted at the
> time.
>
> praedor
>

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