[xubuntu-users] 2. Re: USB Mobile Problems

[Petter Adsen]

On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 09:18:25 +1000
Rob Ward <rl.ward at bigpond.com> wrote:

<snip>

> And the Google Inc Nexus S is registered in the list, but nothing 
> appears in the GUI file browser, to be mounted and viewed..... however 
> the other three machine do it easily.
> 
> I am guessing the Phone is OK (works with three other very similar 
> computers) and the Desktop USB physical/electrical connection is ok 
> (other devices Microsoft Keyboard and mouse and Arduino work fine), and 
> part of the Phone connection being recognised (the phone goes through 
> the same steps as on other three computers), but the filing system in 
> the Desktop is somehow corrupted or has an incompatible setting.  Apart 
> from USB memory sticks not working in the front USB ports, I am not 
> having any other filing system problems.

It could possibly be a software problem. Can you show us the output of
'apt-cache policy gvfs-backends' from a working machine and the
non-working one?

Alternatively, try to purge (not just remove) and reinstall it on the
machine you're having problems with.

Petter

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