Does not detect hotplugged storage device
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gvfs (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
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-
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/freedeskto
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-
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
ProcVersionSign
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Title: Does not detect hotplugged storage device
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-15-generic i686
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.