What kernel are you running? Is it a 2.6? I still use 2.4 series and have not ever had a USB hang like you describe. Since hotplug started taking care of USB I've not had a problem. Also, what distro are you running? This may make a difference because of what packages are included as part of your GUI environment and what default services are running.
As for not being able to kill a process, is it possible that you were trying to kill a parent process while a child process was still busy/locked? Similar to trying to delete a directory that still has subdirectories that are not empty.
Brian Kelsay
Duane Attaway <> 01/10/05 10:16AM >>>
I mounted the volume through the command line with the mount command. I <snip> it. This is what I get for running development kernels and system. Its