USB devices not automatically mounted Precise 12.04

[Romano Giannetti]

I upgraded from Oneiric to Precise yesterday. Since then, when inserting a SD card or connecting a USB drive to the system, nothing happens. The drive is detected:

SYS: Apr 29 21:14:14 romano-asus kernel: [24697.236074] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 7 using ehci_hcd
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:14 romano-asus kernel: [24697.386199] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:14 romano-asus mtp-probe: checking bus 1, device 7: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-1"
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:14 romano-asus mtp-probe: bus: 1, device: 7 was not an MTP device
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.426926] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST950032 5AS PQ: 0 ANSI: 2 CCS
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.429103] sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.430454] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.432336] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Write Protect is off
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.432349] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Mode Sense: 28 00 00 00
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.433233] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.433248] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.439084] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.439098] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.498087] sdc: sdc1 sdc2
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.501429] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] No Caching mode page present
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.501442] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Assuming drive cache: write through
SYS: Apr 29 21:14:15 romano-asus kernel: [24698.501454] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI disk

but then nothing happens. In Oneiric, the drive was mounted and visible in Nautilus and in the Desktop.

[Romano Giannetti (romano-giannetti)]

After a reboot it started working again. Moreover, I am not sure this is a DeviceKit issue. What can I do to help debug if it happens again?

[Jeff (grapnell-gmail)]

I can confirm, USB cardreader does not mount my drives. It happened since I upgraded to precise yesterday. I know the card reader is detected, as 'lsusb' outputs:

jeff@jeff-desktop:~$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. M-BJ58/M-BJ69 Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 413c:2005 Dell Computer Corp. RT7D50 Keyboard
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 14c4:8000
Bus 001 Device 030: ID 0781:8989 SanDisk Corp. ImageMate 12-in-1 Reader

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Romano Giannetti, thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please execute the following command only once, as it will automatically gather debugging information, in a terminal:
apport-collect 991390

When reporting bugs in the future please use apport by using 'ubuntu-bug' and the name of the package affected. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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