I can confirm that this bug happens in Ubuntu 11.10 if a Western Digital My Book (1 Tb mirroring) is connected through USB.
Disconnecting the WD results in a gnome-settings-daemon that doesn't crash.
This bug can be temporarily fixed by executing the following script as startup item in "Startup Applications" :
I can confirm that this bug happens in Ubuntu 11.10 if a Western Digital My Book (1 Tb mirroring) is connected through USB. daemon that doesn't crash.
Disconnecting the WD results in a gnome-settings-
This bug can be temporarily fixed by executing the following script as startup item in "Startup Applications" :
#!/bin/bash daemon & > /dev/null
xinput --set-prop "Western Digital My Book" "Device Enabled" 0
nohup gnome-settings-
killall nautilus
nohup nautilus -n & > /dev/null
This is the part in my /var/log/udev that shows that udev is seeing the USB HDD as a hid device.
I'm no udev expert, so I might be wrong about this.
KERNEL[12.524293] add /devices/ pci0000: 00/0000: 00:1d.0/ usb2/2- 1/2-1.5/ 2-1.5:1. 1/0003: 1058:1105. 0002 (hid) /devices/ pci0000: 00/0000: 00:1d.0/ usb2/2- 1/2-1.5/ 2-1.5:1. 1/0003: 1058:1105. 0002 0003:00001058: 00001105 usb-0000: 00:1d.0- 1.5/input1 575532513130303 833303330 hid:b0003v00001 058p00001105
UDEV_LOG=3
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=
SUBSYSTEM=hid
DRIVER=generic-usb
HID_ID=
HID_NAME=Western Digital My Book
HID_PHYS=
HID_UNIQ=
MODALIAS=
SEQNUM=1537
KERNEL[12.524319] add /devices/ pci0000: 00/0000: 00:1d.0/ usb2/2- 1/2-1.5/ 2-1.5:1. 1/0003: 1058:1105. 0002/hidraw/ hidraw1 (hidraw) /devices/ pci0000: 00/0000: 00:1d.0/ usb2/2- 1/2-1.5/ 2-1.5:1. 1/0003: 1058:1105. 0002/hidraw/ hidraw1
UDEV_LOG=3
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=
SUBSYSTEM=hidraw
DEVNAME=hidraw1
SEQNUM=1538
MAJOR=251
MINOR=1