Bug#576792: gnome: Unable to automount a vfat formatted USB stick

[David Creelman]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 11:56:52AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> reassign 576792 nautilus
> thanks
> 
> Le mercredi 07 avril 2010 à 17:51 +1000, David Creelman a écrit :
> > Not sure if this is the right place to report this.
> > Before the last apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade I was able to automount
> > my Medion 8Gb USB stick. 
> > Now, when I plug it in, there is a small spike of CPU and then no
> > Nautilus screen and no automount.
> > There is no problem with the drive itself. I was able to mount it with
> > sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/floppy and get at all of the files on it.
> 
> Does the disk appear in gnome-disk-utility when you plug it in?
Yes, it does.
 If it’s the case, does mounting it from this tool work?

Yes, it does. 

> 
> What are the last lines of the output of dmesg when you plug it in?
Here are the last parts of dmesg after plugging it in

[13639.172139] usb 4-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
[13639.306071] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=1307, idProduct=0165
[13639.306083] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
[13639.306091] usb 4-2: Product: USB Mass Storage Device
[13639.306098] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: USBest Technology
[13639.306105] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 0911155201c10b
[13639.306366] usb 4-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[13639.316112] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[13639.316697] usb-storage: device found at 4
[13639.316703] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[13644.317075] usb-storage: device scan complete
[13644.317765] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access                               0.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[13644.336093] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 15794176 512-byte logical blocks: (8.08 GB/7.53 GiB)
[13644.337539] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[13644.337552] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 00 00 00 00
[13644.337559] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[13644.341494] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[13644.341511]  sdb: sdb1
[13644.517821] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[13644.517838] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

Let me know if I've done something silly or if you need any more information.

Cheers
DC

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