| 2006-06-14 03:38:41 |
Edmund Laugasson |
description |
Binary package hint: pmount
Perhaps is not only pmount package involved - there may be also dbus and hal and perhaps something more be involved. But if to read error message, then it says that pmount has the problem.
Reproduce:
1. Install Xubuntu 6.06 LTS from alternate ISO
2. Do all upgrades until 13th of June 2006 mid day (12:00 PM)
3. Plug in USB memory stick. You will see icon on desktop and from mouse right click menu you may see, that this is not mounted, because there is mount command available. Also if you use terminal and type 'sudo mount' without quotes, then you may see - no /dev/sd* device is not mounted.
I had USB 1.1 controller and Kingston Data Traveler I USB memory stick, which is also capable for USB 2.0.
The PC was with Intel motherboard with i810 chipset and CPU was 400MHz Intel Celeron and RAM were 128MB SDRAM, HDD was 10GB. So it's quite old PC and therefore I were happy, when Xubuntu (Ubuntu+XFCE) came out :)
4. Try to mount by choosing 'mount' command from mouse right click menu - it failes (as regular user) and gives pop-up window with message:
Internal error: device_whitelisted(): could not compile regex: Invalid range end
Error: could not execute pmount
And here is the screenshot of it:
http://www.zone.ee/zeroconf/errors/usb_mount_xubuntu_6-06_failed.png
I read ubuntuforums.org and mentioned, that this is not first time, when it appears - people have problem with it and some of them could somehow solve it but I did not. I tried to install gnome-volume-manager - it also installed me bunch of other Gnome stuff, which wasted a lot of disk space. I tried to run this gnome-volume-manager in background as teached in forum and tried to do it as regular user and as root - no result. I tried also restart XFCE - I logged out and then back in and tried again gnome volume manager in all ways - no result.
Then I tried to use ivman as teached in ubuntuforums.org - also no effect :(
Tried to install additional package called hal-device-manager but no effect. I just thought, that perhaps it could not create device.
Then I used command:
tail -f /var/log/messages
... and it shows properly, that /dev/sdb appeared and I even could mount and unmount it manually as root.
I just installed also BUM (Boot Up Manager) and mentioned, that makedev were not working even I saw, that makedev is installed. But as /var/log/messages showed - device has been created.
Also one case was, where people reinstalled dbus, hal and pmount but I already had those programs as newest versions...
This was the worst thing I ever afraid - USB will not work! Uuuhh.. I use a lot of USB-devices...
In Ubuntu 5.10 USB worked like a charm and I even wrote couple of articles in local computer magazine here in Estonia and I made couple of compliments, that USB is working in Ubuntu like a charm - I tried to connect simultaneously a lot of different USB-devices (USB-webcam, USB-memory stick, USB-FDD, USB CD Writer, USB Wacom drawing table, USB flash card reader, USB to IDE HDD) and all of them worked like a charm... I've never seen such a great USB work under Linux and I were really impressed. My Linux experience has been began from year 2000 and since this time I did not see such a great Linux distro.
I installed Edubuntu 5.10 to computer class room and pupils were also happy with this!
So - it would be big thing, if USB can work again :) |
Binary package hint: pmount
Perhaps is not only pmount package involved - there may be also dbus and hal and perhaps something more be involved. But if to read error message, then it says that pmount has the problem.
Reproduce:
1. Install Xubuntu 6.06 LTS from alternate ISO
2. Do all upgrades until 13th of June 2006 mid day (12:00 PM)
3. Plug in USB memory stick. You will see icon on desktop and from mouse right click menu you may see, that this is not mounted, because there is mount command available. Also if you use terminal and type 'sudo mount' without quotes, then you may see - no /dev/sd* device is not mounted.
I had USB 1.1 controller and Kingston Data Traveler I USB memory stick, which is also capable for USB 2.0.
The PC was with Intel motherboard with i810 chipset and CPU was 400MHz Intel Celeron and RAM were 128MB SDRAM, HDD was 10GB. So it's quite old PC and therefore I were happy, when Xubuntu (Ubuntu+XFCE) came out :)
4. Try to mount by choosing 'mount' command from mouse right click menu - it failes (as regular user) and gives pop-up window with message:
Internal error: device_whitelisted(): could not compile regex: Invalid range end
Error: could not execute pmount
Pleas look also the screenshot (PNG format picture) attached to this bug report.
I read ubuntuforums.org and mentioned, that this is not first time, when it appears - people have problem with it and some of them could somehow solve it but I did not. I tried to install gnome-volume-manager - it also installed me bunch of other Gnome stuff, which wasted a lot of disk space. I tried to run this gnome-volume-manager in background as teached in forum and tried to do it as regular user and as root - no result. I tried also restart XFCE - I logged out and then back in and tried again gnome volume manager in all ways - no result.
Then I tried to use ivman as teached in ubuntuforums.org - also no effect :(
Tried to install additional package called hal-device-manager but no effect. I just thought, that perhaps it could not create device.
Then I used command:
tail -f /var/log/messages
... and it shows properly, that /dev/sdb appeared and I even could mount and unmount it manually as root.
I just installed also BUM (Boot Up Manager) and mentioned, that makedev were not working even I saw, that makedev is installed. But as /var/log/messages showed - device has been created.
Also one case was, where people reinstalled dbus, hal and pmount but I already had those programs as newest versions...
This was the worst thing I ever afraid - USB will not work! Uuuhh.. I use a lot of USB-devices...
In Ubuntu 5.10 USB worked like a charm and I even wrote couple of articles in local computer magazine here in Estonia and I made couple of compliments, that USB is working in Ubuntu like a charm - I tried to connect simultaneously a lot of different USB-devices (USB-webcam, USB-memory stick, USB-FDD, USB CD Writer, USB Wacom drawing table, USB flash card reader, USB to IDE HDD) and all of them worked like a charm... I've never seen such a great USB work under Linux and I were really impressed. My Linux experience has been began from year 2000 and since this time I did not see such a great Linux distro.
I installed Edubuntu 5.10 to computer class room and pupils were also happy with this!
So - it would be big thing, if USB can work again :) |
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