<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" text="#000000"> Thumb drives fail to mount: I see this error when I plug them into any USB port: <blockquote>Unable to mount 8.1 GB Filesystem Error creating mount point: No such file or directory </blockquote> 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 <blockquote>An error occurred while performing an operation on "8.1 GB Filesystem" (Partition 1 of USB2 USB Flash Drive. The operation failed </blockquote> with Details: <blockquote>Error creating mount point: No such file or directory </blockquote> 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. </body> </html>