[xubuntu-users] Thumb Drive & CD Mount Failure

[Rog]

Thumb drives fail to mount: I see this error when I plug them into any USB port:

    Unable to mount 8.1 GB Filesystem
    Error creating mount point: No such file or directory

This happens on thumb drives with and without data on them that I can mount on 
other PCs running Xubuntu.

I am guessing that this is a software problem because I have been able to do 
I/O on thumb drives in the past. And, curiously, I can mount and read them in 
a guest VM, i.e., Win-7 running in Virtualbox! (Don't be confounded by this: I 
have been able to see thumb drives and my CDs in my Linux host even while 
running VMs.)

When I insert thumb drives, the light on the drive blinks, signaling accesses 
being attempted. I can "see" the drive but not mount it in Nautilus AND in 
"Disk Utility" (palimpsest), which tells me, if I attempt to mount, I see

    An error occurred while performing an operation on "8.1 GB Filesystem"
    (Partition 1 of USB2 USB Flash Drive. The operation failed

with Details:

    Error creating mount point: No such file or directory

The same errors happen when I try to read a CD in my CD/DVD drive, including: 
I can read a CD in the Win-7 VM.

I'm running Xubuntu 12.04.4, 64-bit using an Intel motherboard with an I3 
processor.


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