[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#476260: Bug#476260: USB Drivers do not mount with hal, only manually

[Michael Biebl]

Saulo Soares de Toledo wrote:
> Package: hal
> Version: 0.5.11~rc2-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Especially with KDE, HAL do not mount pendrives. I receive this message:
> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdc1,
>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>        dmesg | tail  or so"

This is very likely a problem of KDE passing incorrect mount flags to hal.

> 
> With dmesg:
> FAT: Directory bread(block 523) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 524) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 525) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 526) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 527) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 528) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 529) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 530) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 531) failed
> scsi 5:0:0:0: rejecting I/O to dead device
> FAT: Directory bread(block 532) failed

Maybe just a broken partition table. You you check the partition table 
with (c)fdisk and if possible repartition and reformat the drive.

Cheers,
Michael


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