Usb Harddrive shows scrambled label

[mrtin]

When i connect my usb harddrive to my computer, it doesn't mount automaticly. I can mount it manually with the menu option System->Administration->Disks.

I have Ubuntu 5.10.
Printout for /etc/init.d/hotplug status :
 * Hotplug status... PCI Status for kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-386 i686

PCI up; bus count is 2

USB Status for kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-386 i686

USB up; bus count is 1
T: Bus=02 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 3
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.12-10-386 ohci_hcd
S: Product=Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller (#2)
S: SerialNumber=0000:00:02.3
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
T: Bus=01 Lev=00 Prnt=00 Port=00 Cnt=00 Dev#= 1 Spd=12 MxCh= 3
P: Vendor=0000 ProdID=0000 Rev= 2.06
S: Manufacturer=Linux 2.6.12-10-386 ohci_hcd
S: Product=Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.0 Controller
S: SerialNumber=0000:00:02.2
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=09(hub ) Sub=00 Prot=00 Driver=hub
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 4 Spd=12 MxCh= 0
P: Vendor=0402 ProdID=5621 Rev= 1.03
S: Product=USB 2.0 Storage Device
S: SerialNumber=00042222200000067334
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=08(stor.) Sub=06 Prot=50 Driver=usb-storage
T: Bus=01 Lev=01 Prnt=01 Port=01 Cnt=02 Dev#= 2 Spd=1.5 MxCh= 0
P: Vendor=045e ProdID=0047 Rev= 3.00
S: Manufacturer=Microsoft
S: Product=Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)
I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 1 Cls=03(HID ) Sub=01 Prot=02 Driver=usbhid

USB Drivers Loaded:
hiddev
hub
usb
usbfs
usbhid
usb-storage

khubd/hotplug thread:
F S UID PID PPID C PRI NI ADDR SZ WCHAN TTY TIME CMD
1 S 0 1864 1 0 75 0 - 0 hub_th ? 00:00:00 khubd

Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859_1 4224 0
nls_cp437 5888 0
vfat 12288 0
fat 46492 1 vfat
sd_mod 17424 0
usb_storage 64704 0
scsi_mod 124872 2 sd_mod,usb_storage
rfcomm 34972 0
l2cap 22404 5 rfcomm
bluetooth 43012 4 rfcomm,l2cap
cpufreq_userspace 4444 0
cpufreq_stats 5124 0
freq_table 4484 1 cpufreq_stats
cpufreq_powersave 1920 0
cpufreq_ondemand 5916 0
cpufreq_conservative 6820 0
video 16004 0
tc1100_wmi 6916 0
sony_acpi 5516 0
pcc_acpi 11392 0
hotkey 9508 0
dev_acpi 11396 0
i2c_acpi_ec 5760 0
button 6672 0
battery 9604 0
container 4608 0
ac 4996 0
ipv6 217408 6
af_packet 20232 2
tsdev 7616 0
analog 10528 0
gameport 14472 1 analog
snd_mpu401 6344 0
snd_mpu401_uart 6784 1 snd_mpu401
snd_rawmidi 22816 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8204 1 snd_rawmidi
floppy 52692 0
pcspkr 3652 0
rtc 11832 0
snd_intel8x0 30144 1
snd_ac97_codec 72188 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 46368 0
snd_mixer_oss 16128 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 78344 3 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd 48644 12 snd_mpu401,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 9184 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 10120 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
i2c_sis96x 5252 0
i2c_sis630 7308 0
i2c_core 19728 3 i2c_acpi_ec,i2c_sis96x,i2c_sis630
pci_hotplug 24628 0
sis_agp 8452 1
agpgart 32328 1 sis_agp
dm_mod 50364 1
evdev 9088 0
psmouse 26116 0
mousedev 10912 1
parport_pc 31812 1
lp 11460 0
parport 32072 2 parport_pc,lp
md 40656 0
ext3 115976 1
jbd 48536 1 ext3
thermal 13192 0
processor 23100 1 thermal
fan 4740 0
usbhid 30688 0
8139too 23552 0
8139cp 18432 0
mii 5248 2 8139too,8139cp
ohci_hcd 18564 0
usbcore 104316 4 usb_storage,usbhid,ohci_hcd
ide_cd 36996 0
cdrom 33952 1 ide_cd
ide_disk 16128 3
ide_generic 1664 0
sis5513 14472 1
ide_core 125268 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,ide_generic,sis5513
unix 24624 843
vesafb 8088 0
capability 5000 0
commoncap 6784 1 capability
vga16fb 12232 1
vgastate 8320 1 vga16fb
softcursor 2432 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbimgblt 2944 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbfillrect 3840 2 vesafb,vga16fb
cfbcopyarea 4480 2 vesafb,vga16fb
fbcon 34176 72
tileblit 2560 1 fbcon
font 8448 1 fbcon
bitblit 5248 1 fbcon

INPUT status for kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-386 i686

INPUT devices:
I: Bus=0011 Vendor=0001 Product=0001 Version=ab41
N: Name="AT Translated Set 2 keyboard"
P: Phys=isa0060/serio0/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event0
I: Bus=0003 Vendor=045e Product=0047 Version=0300
N: Name="Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)"
P: Phys=usb-0000:00:02.2-2/input0
H: Handlers=mouse0 event1 ts0
I: Bus=0010 Vendor=001f Product=0001 Version=0100
N: Name="PC Speaker"
P: Phys=isa0061/input0
H: Handlers=kbd event2

INPUT handlers:
N: Number=0 Name=kbd
N: Number=1 Name=mousedev Minor=32
N: Number=2 Name=evdev Minor=64
N: Number=3 Name=tsdev Minor=128

NET Status for kernel: Linux 2.6.12-10-386 i686

NET devices:
    eth0
    lo
    sit0

 * done. martin@martin:~$

[mrtin (martin-arnsten)]

Oh and i have the checkboxes automount_drives and automount_media checked.

[Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott)]

Please try with the Dapper Flight 4 Live CD and see if it works there.

Reassigning to Martin as likely a pmount/hal issue, hotplug in breezy didn't touch usb drives.

[mrtin (martin-arnsten)]

Yes it works with Dapper Flight 4 Live CD.
But the disk gets a funny name, see screenshot:
http://www.happiness.se/images/screenshot-usbdisk.png

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Can you please do

  lshal > hal.txt

attach hal.txt here, and paste the output of

  sudo blkid

here?

[mrtin (martin-arnsten)]

Output of 'lshal'

[mrtin (martin-arnsten)]

martin@martin:~$ sudo blkid

/dev/hda5: TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="1110-13D3" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/hda1: LABEL="/" UUID="309324c1-f18c-4729-bfa4-2a6697eda98c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/evms/hda1: LABEL="/" UUID="309324c1-f18c-4729-bfa4-2a6697eda98c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/evms/hda5: TYPE="swap"
martin@martin:~$ sudo blkid
/dev/hda5: TYPE="swap"
/dev/sda1: UUID="1110-13D3" TYPE="vfat"
/dev/hda1: LABEL="/" UUID="309324c1-f18c-4729-bfa4-2a6697eda98c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/evms/hda1: LABEL="/" UUID="309324c1-f18c-4729-bfa4-2a6697eda98c" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/evms/hda5: TYPE="swap"

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks. However, your lshal output does not contain sda1; are you sure that you did that after plugging in the drive, but before unmounting/ejecting it?

[mrtin (martin-arnsten)]

Hi,
i did it with my Ubuntu 5.10, the drive was plugged in and i checked that it was available in System -> Administration -> Disks.
But i didn't mount it manually, so it wasn't mounted.
Do you want me to do it again?
/martin

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, right, I remember that breezy's hal did not automatically mount drives with an invalid label (this has been fixed in Dapper). However, the device should at least be present in hal. So I'm a bit puzzled indeed and wonder why it does see the drive, but not the partition. Can you please do the procedure again, and additionally send me the output of

  ls -l /dev/sd*
  id hal

? Thanks!

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Closing as duplicate of bug #27897