<html><head><meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /><meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type" /></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">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? <div class="gmail_quote">On May 21, 2014 4:32:21 AM CDT, Luke Van Dervort <luke.vandervort@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> On your filesystem do you have a directory called /media/[yourusername] ? If so do you have read permissions on them? <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05/20/2014 06:32 PM, Rog wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:537BD813.6080406@gmail.com" type="cite"> 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. <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> <pre class="k9mail">-- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </pre></blockquote></div> -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.</body></html>