nautilus doesn't mount pendrive automatically

[Javier Rovegno Campos]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Binary package hint: nautilus or gnome-mount
System: jaunty fresh install

To reproduce it:

1. Open Nautilus
2. Connect a pen drive
3. When you click over device (double click), at System, Nautilus doesn't mount the markvision 4gb usb disk
4. Only is possible (u)mount using the command line.
$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /media/pendrive/

Regards
 Javier

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_CL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, could you run gnome-mount -vbd /dev/sdb1 and copy the log there?

[Javier Rovegno Campos (jrovegno)]

Hi Sebastian:

~$ gnome-mount -vbd /dev/sdc1
gnome-mount 0.8
** (gnome-mount:3350): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800
Falló en GConf: Clave o nombre de directorio erróneo: «/system/storage/default_options/(null)/fstype_override»: `(' no es un carácter válido en los nombres de claves/directorios
** (gnome-mount:3350): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800 with mount_point='', fstype='', num_options=0
** Message: Mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod : Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist

The error message mixed with spanish, Which command give me the output in english only? I can't remember that command...

Thanks in advance

[Javier Rovegno Campos (jrovegno)]

The previous message was in a Hardy machine, sorry. On a Jaunty machine the result is different: (because I was modified the fstab file adding this line:
/dev/sdb1 /media/pendrive vfat rw,user,noauto,sync,noatime 0 0

This happens on the Jaunty machine with the fstab extra line:
$ gnome-mount -vbd /dev/sdb1
gnome-mount 0.8
** (gnome-mount:3384): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800
El dispositivo /dev/sdb1 está en /etc/fstab con punto de montaje «/media/pendrive»
Se ha montado /dev/sdb1 en «/media/pendrive» (usando /etc/fstab)

The pendrive was successfully mounted and I could unmount with the mouse from the desktop normally.
But if I remove the pendrive and plug in, only with the gnome-mount -vbd /dev/sdb1 command the pendrive is mounted again. (The system not mount the pendrive automatically)

On a Jaunty machine result if I remove the the line from the /etc/fstab the result is similar to the hardy machine:
$ gnome-mount -vbd /dev/sdb1
gnome-mount 0.8
** (gnome-mount:3751): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800
Falló en GConf: Clave o nombre de directorio erróneo: «/system/storage/default_options/(null)/fstype_override»: `(' no es un carácter válido en los nombres de claves/directorios
** (gnome-mount:3751): DEBUG: Mounting /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800 with mount_point='', fstype='', num_options=0
** Message: Mount failed for /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_part1_size_4043276800
org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod : Method "Mount" with signature "ssas" on interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" doesn't exist

Regards
Javier

[PsYcHoK9 (psychok9)]

I've the same problem today with 2 different usb pendrive (fat32!):
can't mount usb pendrive, type dmesg | tail:
[ 3523.529900] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 3595.668371] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 3595.712120] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 3608.582546] device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device isw_daeghacjej_Raid2
[ 3623.823577] device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device isw_daeghacjej_Raid2
[ 3712.632023] device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device isw_daeghacjej_Raid2
[ 3753.870543] device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device isw_daeghacjej_Raid2
[ 3761.298619] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 3761.342494] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 4187.202075] device-mapper: ioctl: unable to remove open device isw_daeghacjej_Raid2

[PsYcHoK9 (psychok9)]

p.s. I can mount only with gparted/root.

[PsYcHoK9 (psychok9)]

Solved!

Using "Make USB startup disk" with Jaunty ISO... the installation detect "usb device" like a "optical/cdrom" drive with wrong parameters.

I've removed "/dev/sdd1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0" from /etc/fstab and rebooted for fix it!
Now nautilus mount with correct parameters on my desktop.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

I am not able to reproduce this on 12.04+, are you?

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