Bug#682094: nautilus: report 'read-only' when trying to write to a writable USB volume - solution

Antos Andras antos at cs.bme.hu
Sat Apr 19 20:47:14 UTC 2014


Package: nautilus
Version: 3.4.2-1+build1
Followup-For: Bug #682094

Dear Maintainer,

I experienced the same with with a regular vfat usb stick. Any writing 
operation triggers a 'target is readonly' (or similar) error message in 
Nautilus, while I have write access, cp, mkdir, etc. work in a terminal.
There is many similar reports for Ubuntu and Debian online, see:
http://google.com/search?q=nautilus+usb+read+only
This one offers also a solution:
  http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=107470
The lines corresponding to usb drives in /etc/fstab seems to cause the 
problem, and removing (or commenting out) them solves it.
This work around worked for me, as well! I hava had in /etc/fstab the lines:
/dev/sdb1       /media/usb0     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0
/dev/sdb2       /media/usb1     auto    rw,user,noauto  0       0

Based on this, I hope this flaw can be traced down and sorted out easily.

Andras

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
   APT prefers stable
   APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.12-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils         0.20-0.1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas  3.4.2-3
ii  gvfs                       1.12.3-4
ii  libatk1.0-0                2.4.0-2
ii  libc6                      2.13-38+deb7u1
ii  libcairo-gobject2          1.12.2-3
ii  libcairo2                  1.12.2-3
ii  libexempi3                 2.2.0-1
ii  libexif12                  0.6.20-3
ii  libgail-3-0                3.4.2-7
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0         2.26.1-1
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libglib2.0-data            2.33.12+really2.32.4-5
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2       3.4.2-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                 3.4.2-7
ii  libnautilus-extension1a    3.4.2-1+build1
ii  libnotify4                 0.7.5-1
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.30.0-1
ii  libselinux1                2.1.9-5
ii  libtracker-sparql-0.14-0   0.14.1-3
ii  libx11-6                   2:1.5.0-1+deb7u1
ii  libxml2                    2.8.0+dfsg1-7+nmu3
ii  nautilus-data              3.4.2-1+build1
ii  shared-mime-info           1.0-1+b1

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  brasero          3.4.1-4
ii  eject            2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-13
ii  gnome-sushi      0.4.1-3
ii  gvfs-backends    1.12.3-4
ii  librsvg2-common  2.36.1-2
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