USB Memory Stick not Automounting (or manually mounting)

Rick Knight rick_knight at rlknight.com
Fri May 1 00:44:18 UTC 2009


Alan Dacey wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
>   
>> Rick Knight wrote:
>>     
>>> Due to a hard drive crash, I've had to re-install Kubuntu 8.04 to a bare 
>>> drive. Everything is working so far except that I cannot get my USB 
>>> Memory Sticks to automount, nor am I able to mount them manually. I've 
>>> installed autofs but that didn't help. I've run "sudo tail -f 
>>> /var/log/messages" and watched the output while inserting the Memory 
>>> Stick, but there is no response. This has always just worked in the past 
>>> so I'm not sure what to do to fix the problem. Anyone able to offer any 
>>> help?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Rick
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> Can someone please help me with this? I am unable to access anything on 
>> USB memory sticks.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Rick
>>
>>     
>
> Is libusb installed?  Do your CD's auto-mount?
> Do you have any other partitions that are not mounted in /etc/fstab?  If so, can 
> you see them in the system area in Dolph3n?
>
>   
Alan,

Yes, my CDs do auto-mount.

Thanks,
Rick




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