External USB Disk does not automatically mount at boot (worked in Jaunty, not in Karmic).

[Matthew Holtz]

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

This is a regression. This worked in Jaunty.

I have a Lacie external USB drive. Under Jaunty if it was turned on when my computer booted it was automatically mounted like I expect.

Under Karmic this is broken and the drive does not mount. This requires me to turn the disk off and on, after which it will be mounted.

This is annoying because I use this disk as a file server and this means things will not come up automatically if I lose power. It also means I have to follow a very particular sequence to get things to work.

Something broke in Karmic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
CustomUdevRuleFiles: 10-vboxdrv.rules 50-virtualbox-ose.rules
Date: Fri Nov 13 23:59:30 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdc /dev/sdc1
HotplugNewMounts: /dev/sdc1 /media/LACIE_500GB fuseblk rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=0,group_id=0,default_permissions,allow_other,blksize=4096 0 0
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=413ee0d2-a680-427d-a836-d2fdaccb0ce6 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
Symptom: storage
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 09/24/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: Intel Corp.
dmi.bios.version: BF86510A.86A.0046.P10.0309241107
dmi.board.name: D865GBF
dmi.board.vendor: Intel Corporation
dmi.board.version: AAC25827-406
dmi.chassis.type: 2
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIntelCorp.:bvrBF86510A.86A.0046.P10.0309241107:bd09/24/2003:svn:pn:pvr:rvnIntelCorporation:rnD865GBF:rvrAAC25827-406:cvn:ct2:cvr:

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I can reproduce this.

[stef33560 (stef33560)]

Really boring :(

[Mhatz (hatzimiltos)]

I am having the same problem with a USB HDD Apacher Steno 320GB. No drives are mounted, and the system's load average boosts up 200%! It sucks!

[Nicolò Chieffo (yelo3)]

I've upgraded to ubuntu lucid, but this issue remains

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

I tested this on current lucid on two machines, with both an USB stick and an external USB hard drive, under both GNOME and UNE. Semes to work fine now.

Please yell if it still happens on 10.04 beta 1 (lucid) for you. Thanks!

[richard mullens (richard-mullens)]

I don't believe that this is fixed yet. I have Ubuntu Lucid Beta which was up to date yesterday.

When I plug in a flash drive or an NTFS volume, the lights on the device flash but it does not appear is the list of "Places".

In order to make it work I have added the following 3 lines to /etc/rc.local

#use lspci |grep -i ehci to determine PCI device number of EHCI controller
#use result (00:1d.7) in command below
echo -n "0000:00:1d.7" /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ehci_hcd/unbind

I used those instructions because I found them at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1307542&page=6 (entry #57)

I am using an Acer Aspire One - but the same problem exists using an Asus PC with Karmic.

Perhaps this problem is slightly different to the one described above - but in my opinion it is a show stopper !

[richard mullens (richard-mullens)]

Well, I just updated again and have a new kernel and now the problem has gone !
Sorry to send out a misleading report.