usb stick does not automount in Ubuntu 8.04 RC

[Grisha]

Hi.

I've installed UBUNTU 8.04 on a Dell Optiplex GX150 in my lab, to make a server for my department. Unfortunatly the USB sticks (I've tried several) does not automount. I stick it in, it flashes up, but nothing happens. They work on my laptop (ubu 8.04 RC) and my home desktop (Ubu 7.10) too.
Any suggestions?

Bye,

Gergő

[Marcus Asshauer (mcas)]

Thank you for reporting this bug. Please add the output of "dmesg" after you stick in your stick.

[Grisha (grisha-vodafone)]

ubuntu@ubuntu-desktop:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.24-16-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.2.3 (Ubuntu 4.2.3-2ubuntu7)) #1 SMP Thu Apr 10 13:23:42 UTC 2008 (Ubuntu 2.6.24-16.30-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fdf7000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fdf7000 - 000000000fe16000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fe16000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 253MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 65015) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 65015
[ 0.000000] HighMem 65015 -> 65015
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start PFN for each node
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 65015
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 65015
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 475 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 60444 pages, LIFO batch:15
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FD6D0 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FD6D0, 0014 (r0 DELL )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000FD6E4, 0030 (r1 DELL GX150 5 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000FD718, 0074 (r1 DELL GX150 5 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT FFFE5022, 2474 (r1 DELL dt_ex 1000 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0FE16000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT FFFE7496, 00A7 (r1 DELL st_ex 1000 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 000FD7E8, 0028 (r1 DELL GX150 5 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000)
[ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000f0000
[ 0.000000] swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 64508
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=73073c89-b7a6-4e62-83d0-c0b355164d1c ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC!
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 996.828 MH...

[Grisha (grisha-vodafone)]

Tried on Ubuntu 7.10 too, doesn't work either.

ubuntu@ubuntu-dell:~$ dmesg
[ 0.000000] Linux version 2.6.22-14-generic (buildd@palmer) (gcc version 4.1.3 20070929 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.2-16ubuntu2)) #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 (Ubuntu 2.6.22-14.46-generic)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 00000000000a0000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000000fdf7000 (usable)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fdf7000 - 000000000fe16000 (ACPI data)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 000000000fe16000 - 0000000010000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee10000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] BIOS-e820: 00000000ffb00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
[ 0.000000] 0MB HIGHMEM available.
[ 0.000000] 253MB LOWMEM available.
[ 0.000000] Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 65015) 0 entries of 256 used
[ 0.000000] Zone PFN ranges:
[ 0.000000] DMA 0 -> 4096
[ 0.000000] Normal 4096 -> 65015
[ 0.000000] HighMem 65015 -> 65015
[ 0.000000] early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
[ 0.000000] 0: 0 -> 65015
[ 0.000000] On node 0 totalpages: 65015
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
[ 0.000000] DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 475 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] Normal zone: 60444 pages, LIFO batch:15
[ 0.000000] HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
[ 0.000000] DMI 2.3 present.
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP signature @ 0xC00FD6D0 checksum 0
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDP 000FD6D0, 0014 (r0 DELL )
[ 0.000000] ACPI: RSDT 000FD6E4, 0030 (r1 DELL GX150 5 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACP 000FD718, 0074 (r1 DELL GX150 5 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: DSDT FFFE5022, 2474 (r1 DELL dt_ex 1000 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: FACS 0FE16000, 0040
[ 0.000000] ACPI: SSDT FFFE7496, 00A7 (r1 DELL st_ex 1000 MSFT 100000D)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: BOOT 000FD7E8, 0028 (r1 DELL GX150 5 ASL 61)
[ 0.000000] ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x808
[ 0.000000] Allocating PCI resources starting at 20000000 (gap: 10000000:eec00000)
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 64508
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=UUID=16cbc0c9-0e24-4153-b1a7-b3edbfef2968 ro quiet splash
[ 0.000000] Found and enabled local APIC!
[ 0.000000] mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
[ 0.000000] Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
[ 0.000000] Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
[ 0.000000] Initializing CPU#0
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 1024 (order: 10, 4096 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Detected 996.806 MHz processor.
[ 13.227613] Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
[ 13.228050] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
[ 13.228493] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
[ 13.251633] Memory: 246028k/260060k available...

[tyggna (tyggna)]

Same issue, Ubuntu 8.04, Dell Optiplex GX270
Here's my dmesg from the time I put in the stick (I have no CD-ROM drive, but I know on a hard-ware level that it uses a similar transfer bus to PATA for the front ports, but this problem occurs on the back USB ports as well).

[ 607.983378] usb 5-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 608.116170] usb 5-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 608.125441] scsi6 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 608.127146] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 608.127151] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 613.114475] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 613.115343] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic USB Flash Drive 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 613.127532] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 2023424 512-byte hardware sectors (1036 MB)
[ 613.128028] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 613.128031] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 613.128033] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 613.130527] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 2023424 512-byte hardware sectors (1036 MB)
[ 613.131017] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 613.131020] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[ 613.131022] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 613.131028] sdb: sdb1
[ 613.134869] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 613.134923] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[ 614.053383] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 614.098681] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

[Grisha (grisha-vodafone)]

No solution yet.
It's funny that there is not a single "USB" word in my dmseg report.

[Clau (claudiu-covaci)]

I have the same issue. Dmesg output is also:
UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

Note that the same stick worked on my desktop PC (Kubuntu 7.10) but not on my laptop (Kubuntu 8.04).

[Clau (claudiu-covaci)]

Hi.

I think I found the problem. This solution worked for me anyway. There was an entry in /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdc1 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0

However, /dev/sdc1 is the USB pen drive, so now it's obvious why I didn't work. I just commented out the above line, and the CD-ROM still functions.
Hope this helps..

[Grisha (grisha-vodafone)]

My fstab does not contain /dev/sdc line
I tried to comment out the /dev/scd0 line, the cd-rom worked well afterwards, but there was still no usb stick automount.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda1
UUID=16cbc0c9-0e24-4153-b1a7-b3edbfef2968 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda2
UUID=69ff5059-c3ac-4a5b-a439-cb881abe5b59 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0

[Paul Abrahams (abrahams)]

I too have the problem of automount of USB memory sticks not working (in Kubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04). Here is my dmesg output when I insert *two* of them:

[27635.515591] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[27635.525787] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[27635.536866] usb-storage: device found at 4
[27635.536876] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[27640.536200] usb-storage: device scan complete
[27640.537919] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[27640.551574] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 7902208 512-byte hardware sectors (4046 MB)
[27640.552261] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[27640.552268] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[27640.552273] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[27640.555130] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 7902208 512-byte hardware sectors (4046 MB)
[27640.555774] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[27640.555781] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[27640.555786] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[27640.555798] sdb: sdb1
[27640.712763] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[27640.712863] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
[27644.192822] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 3
[27645.578523] usb 1-4: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 4
[27645.785812] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[27645.795006] input: Topro USB Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/input/input11
[27645.822568] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Topro USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.0-4
[27645.950002] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 4
[27646.802252] usb 1-4: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5
[27647.009616] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[27647.018799] input: Topro USB Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/input/input12
[27647.046297] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Topro USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.0-4
[27647.286156] usb 3-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 7
[27647.430997] usb 3-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[27647.445013] scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[27647.450448] usb-storage: device found at 7
[27647.450458] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[27647.589236] usb 1-4: USB disconnect, address 5
[27649.529689] usb 1-4: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 7
[27649.736999] usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[27649.746207] input: Topro USB Mouse as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.0/usb1/1-4/1-4:1.0/input/input13
[27649.773732] input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Topro USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.0-4
[27652.449843] usb-storage: device scan complete
[27652.451333] scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access Generic STORAGE DEVICE 1033 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[27652.465083] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 512000 512-byte hardware sectors (262 MB)
[27652.466662] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
[27652.466668] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 02 00 00 00
[27652.466674] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
[27652.469423] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] 512000 512-byte hardware sectors (262 MB)
[27652.470912] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Pr...

[Paul Abrahams (abrahams)]

I now find that if I install automount, automounting works perfectly -- except that I get no notifications, even though I've specified them in Systems Settings / Notifications. (Kubuntu Hardy 8.04.1, fully updated.)

[Edward Cherlin (echerlin)]

I had a variation of the same problem when doing a clean install of Ubuntu 8.04 on my Linux Certified Laptop (after a messed-up upgrade). The first stick I inserted wouldn't mount, but the second one would (as long as the first was still in), as /dev/sdc1. I found a line in /etc/fstab for /dev/sdb as a CD-ROM drive, commented it out, and now the first USB stick automounts as /dev/sdb1 with no trouble. In fact, I can mount two USB sticks at once.