Automount for flash drives now failing in 14.04

[MR ZenWiz]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:48 PM, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Tommy Trussell
> <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Have you tried a freshly-formatted drive?
>>
> Not recently, no.
>
>> Have you looked at the entries in your log files when you insert the drive?
>>
> (grimace) no, but I'm not sure what to expect.
>
>> This used to happen to me all the time and it turned out the filesystem on
>> the drive was marked as needing a fsck (after however many mounts) but
>> Ubuntu didn't (doesn't?) have any way to notify you of that in the gui. The
>> message would appear in syslog (maybe kern.log, too), but Ubuntu would not
>> automount the filesystem.
>>
> That might be, but on my work desktop, neither of the drives exhibits
> this behavior.  I'd expect it to be the same, especially now that I'm
> using Intel for both machine cores.
>
> Thanks.  I'll check anyway.
>
> MR

Interesting addendum:

On my work desktop, the following message does appear in the log:

Aug 28 12:46:53 USITRICHTMD1C kernel: [184090.219587] FAT-fs (sdc1):
Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please
run fsck.

But it mounts the drive anyway.

Hmm....