usb automounted device assigned to root : is unwritable

[ochatard]

Binary package hint: xserver-xorg-video-nv

I just upgraded from karmic to lucid.
When i plug in a USB key, it is mounted with root:root as owner, so no user is able to write on it.

[William Brown (williamgatesbrown)]

Have the same problem with bootable thumb drive. Mounts correctly after removing usbmount and pmount is installed.

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Hi there.

On Sep 26 2010, William Brown wrote:
> Have the same problem with bootable thumb drive. Mounts correctly after
> removing usbmount and pmount is installed.

Indeed, usbmount is not really meant to be used by people that are
already using a "regular" desktop environment.

Regards,

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[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

I guess this package was used and installed by default before the desktop way of mounting appeared in Ubuntu, but the package was not automatically removed during the upgrade.

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Workaround for desktop users, remove the package "usbmount".

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Not a bug with the *package* usbmount (which should not be used by regular users).

[Marius B. Kotsbak (mariusko)]

Well, the package that replaced it should probably have set conflicts or replaces this one so that it would have been removed by the system upgrade.

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:48, Marius Kotsbak <email address hidden> wrote:
> Well, the package that replaced it should probably have set conflicts or
> replaces this one so that it would have been removed by the system
> upgrade.

AFAIK, usbmount was never part of any default system and it would have
to be deliberately installed by the user.

Again: usbmount is just a simple package. It has nothing to do with
the "automatic mounting of usb drives" that most desktop environments
provide.

The new version of usbmount has a very unabashed description that it
is not for regular users.

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