Ubuntu 9.04 Can't automount FAT32 USB Drive On Boot

[Iyeru]

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1134501

See above thread for information.

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1. Turn Off Machine
2. Put USB Pen/Thumb/Flash Drive Into USB Slot
3. Turn On Machine
4. Log-In To Ubuntu

Ubuntu will not show the drive in /media, /mnt, on the desktop, in pysdm or in fdisk -l.

Taking out the Pen/Flash/Thumb drive then putting it back in while logged in makes the drive mountable (and indeed, it auto-mounts itself when replugged) with no issues whatsoever.

[krul (krul)]

I have exactly the same. After booting my external drive with two partitions (ext3 and fat32) is not mounted. After replugging the usb cable mounting is fine.

fdisk -l
   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdg1 93 120964 970904340 83 Linux
/dev/sdg2 120965 121601 5116702+ b W95 FAT32

In intrepid it was working fine.

[Iyeru (iyeru42)]

One more thing, if you haven't noticed yet. Each time you use pysdm to make it so the drive "auto" mounts, on the next start-up the drive still does not auto-mount (as described in the thread.) But what's even more, is that after doing this, replugging the device after boot in an ubuntu login session causes the USB/external drive to boot up as a different letter than last time.

This may happen every time the device is replugged though even without pysdm.

[Iyeru (iyeru42)]

No, nevermind, that problem was because the Media Readers were mounted before the drive.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please answer these questions:

 * Is this reproducible?
 * If so, what specific steps should we take to recreate this bug?

 This will help us to find and resolve the problem.

[Iyeru (iyeru42)]

Information Updated. yes, It is reproducable. See new description of bug.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the disk not being listed in fdisk indicates that's not a GNOME specific issue

[Iyeru (iyeru42)]

I see, well here's a little more info from the mount command. After mounting, the USB Device shows as follows under mount:

/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=hal,shortname=mixed,uid=999,utf8,umask=077,flush)

After replugging of course.

[Iyeru (iyeru42)]

Fix:

Add usb_storage to /etc/modules

[Iyeru (iyeru42)]

Hack in /etc/modules

[krul (krul)]

[quote]
Fix:

Add usb_storage to /etc/modules
[/quote]

That worked for me too.

Thanks.

[Michael Ross (mgross)]

That does not fix it for me - usb is still coming on-line too late for mounting file systems.

[Michael Ross (mgross)]

sorry, didn't mean to change the status (though the fix is released it didn't work for me)

[Ramaddan (ramaddan)]

I'm having a similar issue.

Ever since upgrading to Jaunty from Intrepid, my external encrypted drive does not automount anymore when I turn it on.

In Intrepid, all I needed to do was to turn it on and it would ask me for a password.

I tried adding the "usb_storage" to etc/modules and restarting, but nothing happens.

[CrypticBlade (adam-thomas)]

Possible Solution:
I also was unable to have my external usb drive auto-mount after reboot in 9.04 after a package update. The problem started after doing on of Juanty's updates, so I looked at the log of what packages were updated. I suspected it might have something to do with HAL so forced downgrade of "hal, libhal1, and libhal-storage1" and after a reboot it worked! My drive was auto-mouting as expected once again. Can anyone else verify?

[Ramaddan (ramaddan)]

The bug report says Fix Released, however I still have this problem.

My external hard drive is still not auto-mounting. Am I missing something?

[NickWebHA (nick-lifebloodnetworks)]

I am still having the same issue. Adding "usb_storage" to etc/modules and restarting has not changed anything for me.

[NickWebHA (nick-lifebloodnetworks)]

Sorry. Forgot to include:
9.10 (x86_64)
Running an MSI GT627-216US
Three clean installs where the disk was wiped and one on a different machine