usb flash drives not mounted by hal (solved by a complete reinstall of lucid)

[1richard]

My usb 5 flash drives are seen by notifier and I can copy from them, but I cannot write to them, can anyone help me, what am I missing?? The message I get when trying to unmount is "Hal.Device.Volume.NotMountedbyHal: Device to ummount is not in /media/.hal.mtab so it is not mounted by hal" Thanks

[1richard]

Re: usb flash drives not mounted by hal (still not working)

Can anyone help me on this, I do not want to format and reinstall as that is the only option I can think of at the present time, and go back to 9.10 to use my flash drives

[Snowhog]

Re: usb flash drives not mounted by hal (still not working)

"usb 5" ? Explain, please? Do you mean you have 5 USB flash drives, or...

How are they formatted - what FS?

[1richard]

Re: usb flash drives not mounted by hal (still not working)

I have 5 different flash drives that I use, and they all worked before I upgraded to Lucid and I use only one at a time for copying files, and all of them will not mount for writing to and cannot be unmounted even though I can copy from them, but I cannot delete or write to any of them, there is an error someplace, tried everything I can think of but got no where, I am not a programmer just a user

[Snowhog]

Re: usb flash drives not mounted by hal (still not working)

Okay. Again, how are the flash drives formatted - ext2, ext3, ext4, fat, fvat, ntfs, reiserfs, ??

[Rog131]

Re: usb flash drives not mounted by hal (still not working)

Usb stick mount/unmount at here


mount

1) Physically connecting the usb device.

The device can be found by the list usb command:

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive

The dmesg command is showing that there is new device:

dmesg

[ 297.592015] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
[ 297.725094] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 297.808628] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
...
[ 302.851305] sde: sde1
[ 302.861306] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 302.861315] sd 4:0:0:0: [sde] Attached SCSI removable disk

The device notifier will pop up and tell the options



2) Mounting the media by clicking the "Open with File Manager"

The device is mounted to the /media/disk and the file manager is opening.

The rights/permissions at here:

ls -l /media

drwxr-xr-x 2 rog131 root 32768 1970-01-01 02:00 disk

and

ls -l /media/disk

-rwxr-xr-x 1 rog131 root 7746 2010-03-04 12:44 DBus.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rog131 root 1963 2009-12-31 20:34 Error.txt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rog131 root 365958 2010-01-17 17:32 mplayer.doc

The user rog131 can write/execute/read.


unmount

1) Closing the file manager

2) unmounting the usb devise from the device notifier

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3) Physically removing the usb device

The dmedg will show this:

dmesg

[ 1162.872550] usb 1-2: USB disconnect, address 2

How are you mounting and unmounting the device ?
What feedback do you get ?

[1richard]

Re: usb flash drives not mounted by hal (still not working)

This what I got on dmesg

[19036.904037] usb 2-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[19037.374713] usb 2-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[19037.375001] scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[19037.375100] usb-storage: device found at 3
[19037.375101] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[19042.373023] usb-storage: device scan complete
[19042.373757] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB 2.0 USB Flash Drive 0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2