[xubuntu-users] Thumb Drive & CD Mount Failure

[Rog]

On 05/21/2014 05:32 AM, Luke Van Dervort wrote:
> On your filesystem do you have a directory called
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> /media/[yourusername]   ?
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> If so do you have read permissions on them?
I have no directory named /media
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> 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:
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>>     Unable to mount 8.1 GB Filesystem
>>     Error creating mount point: No such file or directory
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>> This happens on thumb drives with and without data on them that I can mount 
>> on other PCs running Xubuntu.
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>> 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.)
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>> 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
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>>     An error occurred while performing an operation on "8.1 GB Filesystem"
>>     (Partition 1 of USB2 USB Flash Drive. The operation failed
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>> with Details:
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>>     Error creating mount point: No such file or directory
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>> 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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