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After Jaunty upgrade to Karmic USB hard and flash drives don't automatically mount or appear anywhere

Bug #466275 reported by Zeniff on 2009-10-31

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #463347: devices not detected -- too many open files. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	dist (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned
	udev (Ubuntu)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: gvfs

Just upgraded from Jaunty 9.04 to Karmic 9.10.

Unable to automatically mount any USB hard drives or flash drives.

The only time I got anything to mount was after I had run Disk Utility from System > Preferences. However, after that, all but one of my HD partitions shows up. Disk Utility reports the rest as unallocated. Also, I never actually did anything in Disk Utility; I just opened started the program because I didn't remember seeing it before in 9.04.

Also, GParted still cannot see any of the USB storage devices.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Oct 31 02:17:19 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
HotplugNewMounts:

NonfreeKernelModules: wl
Package: gvfs 1.4.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: gvfs
Symptom: storage
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686

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Zeniff (zeniffmartineau) wrote on 2009-10-31:

BootDmesg.txt Edit (39.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
DKDisksMonitorLog.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (3.8 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
UdevMonitorLog.txt Edit (7.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
XsessionErrors.txt Edit (737 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2009-10-31:

seems similar to bug #463347

affects:	gvfs (Ubuntu) → udev (Ubuntu)
affects:	udev (Ubuntu) → gvfs (Ubuntu)
affects:	gvfs (Ubuntu) → udev (Ubuntu)
affects:	udev (Ubuntu) → gvfs (Ubuntu)
affects:	gvfs (Ubuntu) → udev (Ubuntu)

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daf (davydm) wrote on 2009-11-07:

I don't know if this is a proper dupe of #463347. The reporters there are referring to udev issues, which, afaik, should end up with the device nodes for the inserted media not being allocated?

I'm getting the same issue (with the same work-around: launch palimsest and re-plug the external storage device -- I'm hoping this will work for optical media too, since putting a DVD in my drive doesn't result in something showing up in my Places menu, and double-clicking my drive in the "Computer" view in Nautilus doesn't attempt to mount the drive either), but I do see messages in dmesg referring to the device being plugged in and a /dev/sdXN node being allocated to it. It's just not showing up in Nautilus.

Dolphin, however, *does* show the device and will let me mount and browse it. All of this makes me think the issue at hand here is not the death of udev by fd leak, but something either in gvfs or nautilus.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote on 2009-11-12:

Oh, hang on. daf, you weren't the original reporter of this. If you can still reproduce it, can you please do a new bug report with "ubuntu-bug storage"?