USB Mass Storage device not automounted

[Colin Marquardt]

Binary package hint: gvfs

When I attach USB Mass Storage devices, the don't get automounted. I can mount them fine with e.g. Palimpsest. This report is generated with the ubuntu-bug utility as requested in Bug 429257. My specific device in this case is a Garmin GPSmap 60Cx in Mass Storage mode.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Nov 8 23:58:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
HotplugNewMounts:

Package: gvfs 1.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Tags: ubuntu-unr
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you confirm that you are running GNOME? Does this happen with other USB storage devices (like USB sticks) as well?

devkit-disks looks fine. Can you please do this:

  * Disconnect the garmin
  * Open a Terminal and do "gvfs-mount -oi"
  * Connect the garmin, wait some 10 seconds
  * Press Control-C, and copy&paste the output here.
  * Copy & paste the output of "mount".

Thanks!

[Colin Marquardt (ubuntu-marquardt-home)]

Thanks for the quick response.
Yes, I'm very sure I'm running Gnome. This is a Karmic Netbook Remix, installed from the release candidate CD (and updated).

colin@snow:~$ gvfs-mount -oi
Monitoring events. Press Ctrl+C to quit.
Drive connected: 'Garmin 60x microSD'
  Drive(0): Garmin 60x microSD
    Type: GProxyDrive (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
    ids:
     unix-device: '/dev/sdb'
    themed icons: [drive-removable-media-usb] [drive-removable-media] [drive-removable] [drive]
    is_media_removable=1
    has_media=1
    is_media_check_automatic=1
    can_poll_for_media=1
    can_eject=1
    can_start=0
    can_stop=1
    start_stop_type=shutdown
    Volume(0): 4,0 GB Dateisystem
      Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
      ids:
       uuid: '3031-6130'
       unix-device: '/dev/sdb1'
      themed icons: [drive-removable-media-usb] [drive-removable-media] [drive-removable] [drive]
      can_mount=1
      can_eject=1
      should_automount=0

Volume added: '4,0 GB Dateisystem'
  Volume(0): 4,0 GB Dateisystem
    Type: GProxyVolume (GProxyVolumeMonitorGdu)
    ids:
     uuid: '3031-6130'
     unix-device: '/dev/sdb1'
    themed icons: [drive-removable-media-usb] [drive-removable-media] [drive-removable] [drive]
    can_mount=1
    can_eject=1
    should_automount=0

^C
colin@snow:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/home/colin/.Private on /home/colin type ecryptfs (ecryptfs_sig=123456789,ecryptfs_fnek_sig=1234567899,ecryptfs_cipher=aes,ecryptfs_key_bytes=16)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/colin/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=colin)
colin@snow:~$

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

> should_automount=0

Ah, that would be it then. I need to check the code and find out what could cause this.

[Colin Marquardt (ubuntu-marquardt-home)]

This problem seems to have been fixed in the meantime, the Garmin is now automounted when in USB Mass Storage mode. I didn't notice it right away because it takes quite some time until that happens, but it happens eventually. Thanks guys.