Bug#612119: nautilus: Fails to automount usb stick, gives error
Andrew Simpson
andrewnz.simpson at gmail.com
Sun Feb 6 01:45:26 UTC 2011
Package: nautilus
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: lfs
New install of squeeze on Acer Aspire One using default installer.
Plugging in usb stick gives a pop-up error message:
"Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
missing codepage or helper program, or other error
In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
dmesg | tail or so"
Tried with several different sticks and different file systems (FAT 32 & ext2).
dmesg gives:
[ 31.444149] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[ 31.579214] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1607
[ 31.579230] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[ 31.579243] usb 1-2: Product: DataTraveler 2.0
[ 31.579253] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Kingston
[ 31.579262] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 000AEB91BC94A91085700043
[ 31.579631] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 31.645385] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 31.645716] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 31.646170] usb-storage: device found at 3
[ 31.646177] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 31.646227] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 31.646239] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 36.644515] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 36.645614] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 36.649694] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 31506432 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1
GB/15.0 GiB)
[ 36.650394] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 36.650417] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 36.650434] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 36.654884] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 36.654913] sdb: sdb1
[ 36.886519] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 36.886545] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 37.663594] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 37.663603] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[ 37.665349] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 37.665357] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 37.735006] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
Mounting manually works:
asimpson at debian-netbook:~$ mount /dev/sdb /mnt
mount: only root can do that
asimpson at debian-netbook:~$ su root
Password:
root at debian-netbook:/home/asimpson# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
root at debian-netbook:/home/asimpson#
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii desktop-file-utils 0.15-2 Utilities for .desktop files
ii gvfs 1.6.4-3 userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.11.2-10 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.8.10-6 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libexempi3 2.1.1-1 library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii libexif12 0.6.19-1 library to parse EXIF files
ii libgail18 2.20.1-2 GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libglib2.0-data 2.24.2-1 Common files for GLib library
ii libgnome-desktop-2-17 2.30.2-2 Utility library for loading .deskt
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 2:1.0.6-2 X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libnautilus-extension1 2.30.1-2 libraries for nautilus components
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libselinux1 2.0.96-1 SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii libsm6 2:1.1.1-1 X11 Session Management library
ii libunique-1.0-0 1.1.6-1.1 Library for writing single instanc
ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii nautilus-data 2.30.1-2 data files for nautilus
ii shared-mime-info 0.71-4 FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa
Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii app-install-d 2010.11.17 Application Installer Data Files
ii brasero 2.30.3-2 CD/DVD burning application for GNO
ii consolekit 0.4.1-4 framework for defining and trackin
ii desktop-base 6.0.5 common files for the Debian Deskto
ii eject 2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7.1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii gvfs-backends 1.6.4-3 userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii librsvg2-comm 2.26.3-1 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii synaptic 0.70~pre1+b1 Graphical package manager
Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii eog 2.30.2-1 Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii evince [pdf-viewer] 2.30.3-2 Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
ii totem 2.30.2-6 A simple media player for the GNOM
pn tracker <none> (no description available)
ii xdg-user-dirs 0.13-2 tool to manage well known user dir
-- no debconf information
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