Comment 28 for bug 102097

I can confirm multiple Gutsy (network upgraded from Fiesty) machines have problems with multiple usb sticks and card readers, that worked under Fiesty without issue.

A simple, but not user friendly solution is:

sudo mount -t vfat /dev/{sdb1 or such like} /media/{dir_of_choice}

Typical error seems to say "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1, missing codepage or helper program or other error In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try dmesg | tail or so"

Have tried removing (then adding back in) the "usefree" option in gconf-editor.

Seems that auto mounting in Gutsy(Fiesty as well ?) has gone completely belly up!