External device mounted from the Desktop become unmounted?

[Benedikt Meurer]

Andrew Robinson wrote:
> When I got back the device was no longer in the mount table, so yes,
> it was unmounted, but I never unmounted it which is odd. It is almost
> as if it timed out. I will let you know if it happens again, but in
> the meantime, how do I get rid of the desktop icon without restarting
> X (and have it recognize the drive when I put it back in through the
> "auto mount" desktop feature)?

It's not an issue with xfdesktop. The real problem, as already
mentioned, is that something unmounts your device and HAL's internal
state gets messed up. You should try to find out why this happens and
probably ask on your distributions mailinglist for help.

Benedikt