local devices (specifically usb thumbdrives) not working on edubuntu Gutsy

[David Van Assche]

Hi Jim,
   The fuse group error is indeed a common one, it just means, look
inside users and groups, and make sure the users have the priviledges
for reading local devices and block devices (fuse), one of the tick
boxes there. However, my error is more ecclectic as I've been through
this document thoroughly: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebugLocalDev
I get to the last step, where I cannot mount /tmp, even though I see
all the local device directories under /tmp/.username-ltspfs/

Kind Regards,
David

On Nov 7, 2007 5:26 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org> wrote:
>
> On 11/7/07, David Van Assche <dvanassche at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have run through the document on the wiki, written by Scott
> > Bealnaves (sp?) regarding debugging and I get to the very last step,
> > where it says to try and manually mount via ssh... This gives me the
> > following error:
> > /tmp/.sysadmin-ltspfs/tmp/ directory not mounted.
> >
> > I see the drives, including local devices listed under
> > /tmp/.sysadmin-ltspfs, but they dont seem to want to mount... any
> > ideas what I can try next?
>
> I'm anxious to find a solution to this too. I did find this quote
>
> "One of the most common reasons for USB storage devices not to work is
> the user needs to be in the fuse group. By running the groups command
> a user can check what groups he is in. You can change user groups in
> the user admin tool which you use to create users." from
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EdubuntuFAQ#head-caf37e5bb5a34addb239b58fc1dd65d578363def
> but I don't know how to implement that.
>
> This did work for us a while back on feisty but on my new install
> (also feisty but new server) it doesn't. Very odd.
>
> Thanks,
> Jim
>