Karmic doesn't mount USB disk automatically?

[Odemia]

Working fine here too, on multiple machines multiple pen drives. Perhaps if there was some more info, we could be more helpful.

What is the output of "ls -al /media" and "ls -al /media/disk"?
Output of "lsusb" (with pen drive plugged in)?
What does your /etc/fstab look like?
Output of "tail /var/log/messages".
What format is the pen drive?
This is probably obvious but have you tried "sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk"?

[TheStagesmith]

I tried this with several FAT16 pen drives, and only one of them was automatically mounted. Everything else was normal; the drive was detected by lsusb, I was able to manually mount it as well. I'm guessing then that the problem is in the hotplug utility. It's still an annoyance, though, since it's much nicer to make a startup usb drive using the built-in startup disk creator than to do so manually, among other things.

[sayyidhassan]

i could mount sda cards,usb's on the fly in Jaunty(and very fast),but after a fresh install of Karmic,nothing can be mounted.

[SirBismuth]

Just checked, and it works the same as it did in jaunty for me... sorry I can't be of any more help.

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[funacide]

I am having the same problem, since going 9.1, any info appreciated?

[eborigene]

Working fine here too, on multiple machines multiple pen drives. Perhaps if there was some more info, we could be more helpful.

What is the output of "ls -al /media" and "ls -al /media/disk"?
Output of "lsusb" (with pen drive plugged in)?
What does your /etc/fstab look like?
Output of "tail /var/log/messages".
What format is the pen drive?
This is probably obvious but have you tried "sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk"?

External drive that was stripped out of an old ThinkPad does not work. Thouhg it is recognised in Windows. Filesystem is ntfs. Label is EXTINTO
Output of suggested commands bellow:

Output of ls -al /media
adsm@vdmcm:/dev$ ls -al /media
total 28
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 2009-11-02 09:48 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 4096 2009-11-01 21:59 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 2009-11-01 21:28 cdrom -> cdrom0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-01 21:28 cdrom0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2009-11-01 21:28 floppy -> floppy0
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2009-11-01 21:28 floppy0
drwx------ 38 adsm adsm 12288 1970-01-01 01:00 KINGSTON

Output of tail /var/log/messages
adsm@vdmcm:/dev$ tail /var/log/messages
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2683.975946] __ratelimit: 1 callbacks suppressed
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2683.978049] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2683.978054] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2683.978058] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Invalid command operation code
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2684.322172] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2684.322179] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2684.322183] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Invalid command operation code
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2684.323051] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Result: hostbyte=DID_OK driverbyte=DRIVER_SENSE
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2684.323054] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Sense Key : Illegal Request [current]
Nov 2 10:32:32 vdmcm kernel: [ 2684.323057] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Add. Sense: Invalid command operation code
adsm@vdmcm:/dev$

output of sudo ls -al /media/disk

adsm@vdmcm:/dev$ sudo ls -al /media/disk
ls: não consigo aceder a /media/disk: Ficheiro ou directoria inexistente [roughly translated from portuguese: no access to /media/disk: File or directory does not exist]

Output of lsusb
adsm@vdmcm:/dev$ lsusb
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 064e:a101 Suyin Corp. Acer CrystalEye Webcam
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0951:1613 Kingston Technology
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 04cf:8818 Myson Century, Inc. USB2.0 to ATAPI Bridge Controller
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

Outuput of sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk

adsm@vdmcm:/dev$ sudo mount /dev/sdc1 /mnt/disk
mount: mount point /mnt/disk does not exist
adsm@vdmcm:/dev$

Thanks for your help.
I am using Ubuntu Karmic Koala (updates made today)

[zeus.jay]

Hi I have noticed the same thing.

I also noticed it seems like Karmic is almost doing a filesystem check on the usb drive before mounting i.e. something that is looking at the smart drives output.

Anyway to manually mount.

ls -lrt /dev/disk/by-id

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 2009-11-02 15:20 usb-ST315003_9VS22GMC_22229632217C-0:0 -> ../../sdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-11-02 15:20 usb-ST315003_9VS22GMC_22229632217C-0:0-part1 -> ../../sdb1


this should give you the device that was most recently attached (alternatively run dmesg will show you entries like this)


168283.396883] sd 23:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[168283.410501] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] 2930277168 512-byte logical blocks: (1.50 TB/1.36 TiB)
[168283.411242] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[168283.411249] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 38 00 00
[168283.411255] sd 23:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through


Above shows the partition is sdb1

I create a mount point in /media

sudo mkdir /media/mydrive

(don't know why but I do change ownership)

sudo chown myuser:myuser /media/mydrive

The drive in question is ntfs


so to mount

sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/mydrive/

[SSamiK]

I'm having the same problem on one of my computers... Neither my external HDD's or my USB-sticks will auto mount on my PC, but on my Notebook it's working as expected. Manually mounting works, but what a drawback...!! Have anyone reported a bug? We should get this fixed ASAP!

[sayyidhassan]

SD card automatically mounted on the same laptop while using a live Fedora12-Beta CD.

[tubunu]

OK folks.
It turned out that the reason why USB disk wasn't automatically mounted was that just right after a fresh install I uninstalled a couple of applications that I never use, apparently some of them had dependencies that got uninstalled as well and which were responsible for auto-mounting the disk. I reinstalled the applications I uninstalled and USB is mounted automatically. Cool.

What I'm wondering about though is, have the dependencies changed? I've always uninstalled applications like bluetooth, evolution, games, desktop sharing and viewing and never have I had problems with auto-mounting.