USB pendrive mounting problems!

[Emret]

Greetings Linux Experts!

I am having serious troubles with mounting my USB pen drive correctly.
I am running Fedora Core 4 with Gnome 2.12.

After plugging in the USB drive and clicking the "Computer" icon on the desktop the drive appears as GENERIC USB FLASH DISK. However, when I double click it to view the files I get the following error message:
mount: /dev/sdd1 already mounted or /media/usbdisk5 busy

I have been searching numerous forums (including this one) and tried numerous solutions but I still havn't found a solution for my problem. The result of my experimentating is that in the /media/ directory there is now 6 directories: usbdisk, usbdisk1, usbdisk2, usbdisk3, usbdisk4, usbdisk5 where the actual content of the USB-drive is shown in /media/usbdisk5.

EDIT: I just found out that every time I plug in the USB drive a new directory appears in the /media/directory with the name usbdisk+1 (that is the number of usbdisk is increased by one each time)

I want to clean up the /media driectory and I want to be able to reach the drive from the Computer browser.
I have tried modifying /etc/mtab and /etc/fstab back and forth but no luck. I need som help here. And please... keep it on an elemental level since I am rather new to Linux.

Regards

//Emret

[miracoli]

I think you didn't unmount the stick properly. Try

umount /dev/sdd1

as root. This could at least solve the problem with the multiple directories.
In fact, I have the same problems with my usb stick. I can't reach it from the computer browser. Right clicking on the icon offers to mount the device even if it is already mounted.

Another problem is that i can't copy files to the stick. Browsing to the directory where the stick is mounted shows the contents of it but if I place files on the stick they don't seem to stay there. If I plug in the stick a second time the files are gone.

[teh_syn]

Similar problems here! They started after upgrading to Gnome 2.12. I now wish I hadn't done this :( Maybe reverting to 2.10 could do the trick? I just can't think of a way accomplishing that :> Also, for some people, mounting seems to work properly even under 2.12. What to do? :/

[ghaefb]

This is the GNOME 2.12 issue. Using nr rpms or from development repo, the same thing.
It's annoying... I found no cure so far :)

[teh_syn]

Ah, digging the nrpms mailing list archive (ok, actually I found it on the first page, hehe), I found this thread (http://archives.nrpms.net/index.cgi?msp:235:mappieefodaaojdbjkkl) also referring to this bug report (http://bugzilla.atrpms.net/show_bug.cgi?id=652). As it seems, there are people who have a better clue than we do trying to solve this issue. Hooray! :D