Upgrade breaks USB disk automount

[paul cooke]

On Thursday 23 November 2006 18:50, D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 1:39 pm, Jose Gomez-Dans wrote:
> > Has this happened to anybody else? The disk can still be mounted using
> > mount/pmount, but...
>
> Just to note, I did the same upgrade, and my card reader and USB DVD-RW are
> still working fine.  I don't have any USB hard disks to try.
>
> Did you reboot, or at least log out and back in?  That might cure it,
> though I haven't actually logged out here since that upgrade.  Maybe if I
> log out and back in, I will encounter the same troubles!

my machine mysteriously rebooted itself some 20 hours after doing the 
update... I'd had a USB hard disk mounted. I cannot mount it at all now, 
though the USB for my Palm Tungsten E works.

I cannot mount any removeable media via USB. My SD card reader doesn't want to 
know and my various USB keys don't either.

Konqueror detects them, offers me the option to do something and then an error 
message comes up and the Icon on the desktop that's just been created is 
greyed out and will not mount (same error message)

really helpfull one of "An unknown error occurred"

argh...

this was in syslog for the mount I attempted just now:

Nov 23 20:32:57 localhost kernel: [17371301.540000] usb 5-5: new high speed 
USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
Nov 23 20:32:57 localhost kernel: [17371301.692000] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for 
USB Mass Storage devices
Nov 23 20:32:57 localhost kernel: [17371301.692000] usb-storage: device found 
at 9
Nov 23 20:32:57 localhost kernel: [17371301.692000] usb-storage: waiting for 
device to settle before scanning
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.696000]   Vendor: BUFFALO   Model: 
ClipDrive         Rev: 1.00
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.696000]   Type:   Direct-Access                      
ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.696000] SCSI device sdb: 507904 
512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.700000] sdb: Write Protect is off
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.700000] sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 
00
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.700000] sdb: assuming drive cache: 
write through
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.704000] SCSI device sdb: 507904 
512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000] sdb: Write Protect is off
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000] sdb: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 
00
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000] sdb: assuming drive cache: 
write through
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000]  sdb: sdb1
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi 
removable disk sdb
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi 
generic sg0 type 0
Nov 23 20:33:02 localhost kernel: [17371306.708000] usb-storage: device scan 
complete

daemon.log hasn't had anything written to it since the spontaneous reboot 2 
days ago.

I think I'll do a further shutdown and cold reboot when things are safe and 
see what happens. First off I'll try another update and see what's there, no 
updates.

>
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> D. Michael McIntyre
>
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