Mounting of USB devices broken in Dapper?

Urtzi Jauregi urtzi at fmf.uni-lj.si
Sat Dec 2 17:40:30 UTC 2006


	Since about a week ago I can't automount any USB device (MP3 player, camera, 
etc). They worked perfectly before, but now I don't see the desktop icon 
anymore. I have to mount the device manually.

	Right after I connect my MP3 player, dmesg shows this:

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[17284715.416000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and 
address 4
[17284717.488000] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17284717.488000] usb-storage: device found at 4
[17284717.488000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17284722.492000]   Vendor: Packard   Model: Portable Player   Rev: 0100
[17284722.492000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI 
revision: 04
[17284722.496000] SCSI device sda: 2039040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1044 MB)
[17284722.500000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17284722.500000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17284722.500000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17284722.512000] SCSI device sda: 2039040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1044 MB)
[17284722.512000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17284722.512000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17284722.512000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17284722.512000]  sda: sda1
[17284722.520000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
[17284722.520000] sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17284722.524000] usb-storage: device scan complete
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so it seems the devices are still detected. They also show up with lsusb. The 
problem is that nothing else happens. No desktop icons, nothing. I'm fairly 
sure it's a Kubuntu problem; the same computer with an up-to-date Ubuntu 
Dapper sees and mounts everything OK.

	Is there something wrong with hal, udev etc? Has somebody had the same 
problem? I suspect it is a conflict with KDE, since there was people with the 
same problem in the debian-kde mailing list. I recall there was an udev 
update about the time I began to have this problem. Could this be the cause?

	I have a HP-nc6120 laptop running an up-to-date Kubuntu Dapper with the 686 
kernel and KDE 3.5.5.

	Thanks in advance,

	- Urtzi -
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Urtzi Jauregi
Fakulteta za Matematiko in Fiziko, Univerza v Ljubljani
Jadranska 19, Si-1000 Ljubljana
Slovenija

Tel: ++386 01 540 13 53
e-mail: urtzi at fmf.uni-lj.si




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