Does not detect hotplugged storage device (exfat)

[Oliver S.]

It used to work then stopped for some reason.

Disk /dev/sdb: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x7c367968

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sdb1 63 488392064 488392002 232.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

exfatfsck /dev/sdb1 finds no error

mount -t exfat works, it's just auto-mounting that doesn't.
'-t' is required though, not sure if that's normal:
mount: /dev/sdb1: more filesystems detected. This should not happen,
       use -t <type> to explicitly specify the filesystem type or
       use wipefs(8) to clean up the device.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
Package: gvfs 1.20.2-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Tue Nov 4 00:39:03 2014
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb
HotplugNewMounts:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-03 (31 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140417)
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Title: Does not detect hotplugged storage device
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (10 days ago)

[Unkraut (unkraut2)]

Same thing here.

Prior to upgrading to ubuntu 14.10 the SD Card of my camera used to be automatically mounted when I plugged it in. Now, this does not happen and mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt returns:

mount: /dev/sdb1: more filesystems detected. This should not happen,
       use -t <type> to explicitly specify the filesystem type or
       use wipefs(8) to clean up the device.

mount -t exfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt does the job.

fdisk -l /dev/sdb returns:

Disk /dev/sdb: 63 GB, 63482711040 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7718 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 3 7719 62002773 7 HPFS/NTFS
Warning: Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Martin Matuska (mm-vx)]

This has been fixed upstream:
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/issues/119
https://github.com/karelzak/util-linux/commit/98b539c25caede8534ffaf06e67a694eeb3bc6cb

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

Fixed in 15.04 > 2.25.2-2ubuntu1 (2.25.2-1 source) so should be marked "Fix Released"

[Oliver S. (osaier)]

Confirmed fixed for me, nice work!

http://packages.ubuntu.com/vivid/libblkid1

[Martin Matuska (mm-vx)]

SRU utopic: bug #1393542

[AndreK (andre-k)]

please tell how tp properly install this upgraded package on 14.10.
(I doubt adding repositories for vivid is a good idea)

[Oliver S. (osaier)]

I downloaded the .deb (link in comment #6) and installed it with gdebi.

[Oliver S. (osaier)]

On a side note I'm not sure why we should wait for Vivid to get this fix
while Aptitude finds me upgradable packages almost everyday, most of which
looking less impacting than this one.

On Mon Dec 01 2014 at 11:11:14 PM Oliver S. <email address hidden>
wrote:

> I downloaded the .deb (link in comment #6) and installed it with gdebi.
>
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> Title:
> Does not detect hotplugged storage device (exfat)
>
> Status in util-linux package in Ubuntu:
> Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> It used to work then stopped for some reason.
>
> Disk /dev/sdb: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
> Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
> Disklabel type: dos
> Disk identifier: 0x7c367968
>
> Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
> /dev/sdb1 63 488392064 488392002 232.9G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
>
>
> exfatfsck /dev/sdb1 finds no error
>
> mount -t exfat works, it's just auto-mounting that doesn't.
> '-t' is required though, not sure if that's normal:
> mount: /dev/sdb1: more filesystems detected. This should not happen,
> use -t <type> to explicitly specify the filesystem type or
> use wipefs(8) to clean up the device.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.10
> Package: gvfs 1.20.2-1ubuntu2
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-24.32-generic 3.16.4
> Uname: Linux 3.16.0-24-generic x86_64
> ApportVersion: 2.14.7-0ubuntu8
> Architecture: amd64
> CurrentDesktop: Unity
> Date: Tue Nov 4 00:39:03 2014
> HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb
> HotplugNewMounts:
>
> InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-10-03 (31 days ago)
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64
> (20140417)
> SourcePackage: gvfs
> Symptom: storage
> Title: Does not detect hotplugged storage device
> UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to utopic on 2014-10-24 (10 days ago)
>
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[Mike E. (melkevizth)]

I can confirm that the libblkid1 deb linked in comment #6 fixes the issue for me on amd64.

[Jarl (jarl-dk)]

@osaier and everyone else on Utopic. If you are affected by this, then you should also mark yourself as affected by bug #1393542 as mentioned in comment #7

[Luigi (b-luigi)]

Affected as per Kubuntu 14.10
Very annoying but as per solution on #6 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-linux/+bug/1389021/comments/6
After upgrading the lib AND RESTARTING the pc all is fine.
Thanks

[Archie Patterson (archie-patterson)]

I have just installed 14.10 on an HP Mini 110-3100 and now I can't see the SD card.

[Pavel Stano (stano-u)]

Why is it not fixed in utopic repo when fixed package is already available ?!!