[xubuntu-users] Thumb Drive & CD Mount Failure

[Lutz Andersohn]

Did that happen after an upgrade? I had occasional problems in 12.04 esp using a hub.. Using a different USB connector directly on the pc helped.
14.04 works fine.

What file system is on the stick? Do you have that file system installed?


On May 21, 2014 4:32:21 AM CDT, Luke Van Dervort <luke.vandervort at gmail.com> wrote:
>On your filesystem do you have a directory called
>
>/media/[yourusername]   ?
>
>If so do you have read permissions on them?
>
>
>On 05/20/2014 06:32 PM, Rog wrote:
>> 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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