If I shut down Sparky with an external drive connected Sparky will not start back up. It display's some kind of message about a job pending in /dev. Then tells me to enter password or Ctl-D. I forget exactly, but either way it does nothing afterwards. Does anyone know of a work around to restart? I keep reinstalling and trying to remember to unplug the external drive before shutting down. This past time I know I had it unmounted and still giving me this issue. I'm using it on an IBM ThinkPad Lenovo T60. I really hate to reinstall. It took me a day to connect to my Samsung CLX-3305FW printer because I couldn't get it to show in the list then all of a sudden it did. So when I reinstall I know that will be an issue again too.
I love Sparky. I named my dog Sparky! However, I can't use it if I can't find a solution.
Please run those two commands in terminal, and paste here the outcome(with external drive plugged in).
cat /etc/fstab
lsblk -fs