Does not detect hotplugged storage device

[Torsten Hilbrich]

Binary package hint: gvfs

I'm working in a standard gnome environment with nautilus as file manager. I uninstalled hal recently but also checked that this bug occurs even if hal and gnome-volume-manager are installed).

The USB stick in question (with the vfat32 label pqi) was mounted perfectly fine in karmic using the label in /media/pqi.

I then updated to lucid in alpha2 stage and installed the usual package updates. Around the time of alpha-3 I noticed that the USB stick was not mounted automatically. It was recognized by the kernel and listed by the udisk utility. I was also able to mount it with "pmount sdb" or "udisk --mount /dev/sdb":

$ udisks --mount /dev/sdb
Mounted /org/freedesktop/UDisks/devices/sdb at /media/pqi

I checked another stick (with one single partition) and it was mounted automatically.

I assume the problem is that the pqi stick has no partition table but a single filesystem (aka superfloppy format) directly on the device itself (i.e., /dev/sdb is formatted in vfat32).

I also downloaded the LiveCD lucid-desktop-i386.iso of alpha-3 and checked that the problem is existing there too.

BTW: I needed to create a symlink from udisks to devkit-disks to use the "ubuntu-bug storage" tool.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Mar 2 19:12:12 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb
HotplugNewMounts:

Package: gvfs 1.5.4-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_DE.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-15.22-generic
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Title: Does not detect hotplugged storage device
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686

[marcogoni (cogoni)]

I can confirm this behaviour on Lucid Alpha 3 updated today.
A single partition usb disk is not mounted or detected automatically, but mounts fine manually.
Maybe it's related the fact that even gparted does not detect this usb disk.