Kubuntu Hardy doesn't mount USB drive

[Moshewe]

On Kubuntu Hardy Heron, I can't mount various USB drives.
Accessible via CLI (if it auto-mounts them at all), not not GUI (unleashes havoc like the whole desktop slowing, keyboard stops responding etc).
This bug might be related to:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/151025
But since that's just for GNOME, I think a KDE bug report should be filed as well.
Dirves I can't mount: Sansa MP3 players of all kinds, Olympus camera
Drives I CAN mount: Hitachi 160GB HDD

This worked fine in Gusty, all auto-detected and dealt with by HAL.

[Incognito (rveysinga)]

I have the same problem with my desktop machine, but my laptop all works fine. Desktop machine was wiped and reinstalled but the laptop was upgraded from gutsy. If i click on System menu > Storage media dolphin opens up and just says loading directory and it show no drives at all wheras before I plugged int the usb drive I could see both my drive partitions

[Moshewe (orelweinstock)]

I think his is has already been reported, sort of...
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/209483/
But that's just for Sony players, while this is more general.
Maybe interconnected.

[Incognito (rveysinga)]

I discovered that my Sansa View mp3 player is triggering the problem. I can plug in my usb key or my camera and both mount and open fine. When plug in my View it fails to mount and after that I cant see my usb key or camera.

[Incognito (rveysinga)]

Here is dmesg when I try to plug un a usb key after the View

[Incognito (rveysinga)]

Checked the dmesg output of my laptop (thinkpad a21m) and it appears to be the same although it works perfectly there. Anything else I should try?

[Incognito (rveysinga)]

My problem may not be related to the original post so i'm moving my bug report to
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/226733

[David Nemeskey (nemeskeyd)]

A similar (same?) bug happens for me too:
My pendrive is not automounted, and from that moment, no other media is automounted either, and the KDE media status is not refreshed.

So if I insert a CD, it is fine. Then I insert my USB stick, which appears in /dev, but not in KDE. If I remove the CD now, its icon remains on the desktop (and on the Storage Media panel applet).

I can attach logs if it is required, but dmesg and lsusb seems fine (not that I am an expert, though).

[Incognito (rveysinga)]

Just tried again today and it seems to work fine now. I have run several updates since the last time I tried so perhaps this has been noted and fixed

[David Nemeskey (nemeskeyd)]

Indeed. After downloading and installing today's updates (30 megs, lots of KDE packages including kioslaves), the problem has disappeared.

I think this bug can be closed.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 194474 (fixed), so it is being marked as such. Any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.