[xubuntu-users] Thumb Drive & CD Mount Failure

[Rog]

On 05/21/2014 07:08 AM, Lutz Andersohn wrote:
> 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.
No. I've been using 12.04 since it was first released, with updates as they 
come along.
> What file system is on the stick? Do you have that file system installed?
Fat32. I don't understand "Do you have that file system installed." I do note 
that I have one partition on a HD that is formatted NTFS and I can access it's 
contents.

I note that I can boot from a Knoppix CD and mount and see contents of thumb 
drives while running Knoppix.

Remember: this problem applies to both thumb drives and my optical drive.
>
> 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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