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USB Drive Fails to be Autodetected for Mounting in KDE

Bug #431878 reported by Roderick B. Greening on 2009-09-17

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #438316: hal does not properly enumerate USB devices unless CD-ROM inserted as first device. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kde4libs (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

This could be also related to udev, hal, or solid.

In Karmic Alpha 5 (including all updates prior to freeze for Alpha 6), this worked.

I updated the development system on the 15th and had to recover via chroot env and updating on the 16th. Ever since then, usb mounting has not worked.

dmesg sees the drive /dev/sdc and the partition /dev/sdc1. udev appears to not present this device for auto mounting in KDE.

The output of lshal, lshw and solid-hardware show the device being detected as well.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Sep 17 11:26:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdc /dev/sdc1
HotplugNewMounts:

Package: kdelibs5 4:4.3.1-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-10.34-generic
SourcePackage: kde4libs
Symptom: storage
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-10-generic x86_64

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-09-17:

lshal.diff Edit (1.7 KiB, text/x-diff)
BootDmesg.txt Edit (49.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (11.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DKDisksMonitorLog.txt Edit (3.0 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevMonitorLog.txt Edit (7.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-09-17:

lshw.diff Edit (1.5 KiB, text/x-diff)

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-09-17:

solid-hardware.diff Edit (475 bytes, text/x-diff)

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Roderick B. Greening (roderick-greening) wrote on 2009-09-17:

This may also be a hint...

Using solid-hardware mount command and specifying the current UDI associated with the usb stick results in the following:

solid-hardware mount '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_2_0000_00_1d_7_scsi_generic_6'
Error: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_1d6b_2_0000_00_1d_7_scsi_generic_6 does not have the interface StorageAccess.

StorageAccess interface is not being presented, so it cannot mount the device. Not sure what provides this. Maybe I have some old udev rules left from the upgrade breaking this.

Any help would be appreciated.