lost usb/dvd on gutsy->hardy upgrade

[Greg Gamble]

Sorry for the delay in reply Jonas,

I had tried to email several hours ago, but our mail server went
down. Anyway, replies to your queries are embedded below.

On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 11:41:09PM +0200, Jonas Norlander wrote:
> 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?

I tried with a Data CD, but I don't think it matters. When I insert the
CD, I don't get any pop-up dialog or icon as I used to and it doesn't
get mounted under media.

> > 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. 

What's the right way to mount my USB Jumpdrive manually?

> This looks more some kind of UDEV/HAL issues. Is UDEV and HAL installed? 

$ dpkg -l '*udev*'
...
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  udev           117-8          rule-based device node and kernel event mana

$ dpkg -l '*hal*'
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  hal            0.5.11~rc2-1ub Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  hal-cups-utils 0.6.13+svn86-0 CUPS integration with HAL
ii  hal-info       20080508+git20 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi files
un  hashalot       <none>         (no description available)
ii  libhal-storage 0.5.11~rc2-1ub Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library 
ii  libhal1        0.5.11~rc2-1ub Hardware Abstraction Layer - shared library

> What groups are you member of?

$ groups
gregg adm dialout cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner lpadmin admin netdev powerdev

I hope some of that info helps diagnose what broke.

Regards and thanks,
Greg Gamble