lost usb/dvd on gutsy->hardy upgrade

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/6/28 Greg  Gamble <gregg at maths.uwa.edu.au>:
> Thanks Jonas, Pablo and James
>
> I answer all your queries and give the outputs of your suggestions
> below. Is it better to do this in the one email like this? ... or
> answer each suggestion/query by reply to each email?
>
> Anyway, thanks ... I feel I'm moving forward a little.

>> Can you give us the output from
>> this command:
>> ls -l /dev/s[cd]*
>> ls -l /dev/cd*
>> ls -l /dev/dvd*
>
> $ ls -l /dev/s[cd]*
> brw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 11,  0 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/scd0
> brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  0 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/sda
> brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  1 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/sda1
> brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  2 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/sda2
> brw-rw----  1 root disk   8,  5 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/sda5
> brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 16 2008-06-29 00:18 /dev/sdb
> brw-rw----  1 root disk   8, 17 2008-06-29 00:18 /dev/sdb1
>
> $ ls -l /dev/cd*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/cdrom -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/cdrw -> scd0
>
> $ ls -l /dev/dvd*
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/dvd -> scd0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 2008-06-29 00:06 /dev/dvdrw -> scd0

Your DVD drive is recognized and all symlinks is there and pointing to
your DVD device and you can mount and you can mount a CD manually.
What kind of disc are you trying with? When you insert a
DVD-movie/Data DVD, Data CD or Audio CD do you get the pop up dialog
asking what you want to do with it?

> Jun 29 00:36:05 banksia kernel: [  899.220250] usb 1-10: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
> Jun 29 00:36:05 banksia kernel: [  899.278488] usb 1-10: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Jun 29 00:36:05 banksia kernel: [  899.278712] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.451016] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     LEXAR    JUMPDRIVE        1000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.452389] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 252928 512-byte hardware sectors (129 MB)
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.452766] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.454062] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 252928 512-byte hardware sectors (129 MB)
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.454388] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.454396]  sdb: sdb1
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.479620] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
> Jun 29 00:36:10 banksia kernel: [  901.479656] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
>

It's finding your USB Jumpdrive and the partition on it and assigning
it to the sdb1 device, so all looks OK besides that your system wont
automount any removable media. This looks more some kind of UDEV/HAL
issues. Is UDEV and HAL installed? What groups are you member of?

/ Jonas