Description of problem: User is unable to mount usb memory device/stick/drive Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. click up 2 terminals 2. sudo root on both terminals 3. on one terminal run tail -f /var/log/messages 4. insert usb stick (assuming device shows up on sdg, see log/messages terminal) 5. on the other root terminal, erase the device by running dd bs=1M if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdg count=1 6. /usr/sbin/diskdrake click the sdg tab and toggel to Expert and format/label sdg as extent 4 with no test for bad blocks click Done 7. remove usb memory device/stick. 8. insert usb stick 9. click Open with File Manager icon in the Notifications pop up and note the message you can not mount (your label found here) 10. Verify system sees new device, in a root terminal blkid | grep sdg My setup in runlevel 3. $ cat /etc/sysconfig/desktop DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm DESKTOP=KDE4
Forgot to show groups I belong to: $ id uid=1500(bittwister) gid=1500(bittwister) groups=1500(bittwister),6(disk),7(lp),19(floppy),20(games),22(cdrom),43(usb), 80(cdwriter),81(audio),82(video),83(dialout),413(saned),482(ctools),483(ntools), 1599(vboxusers)
Cannot confirm. My full MGA2 KDE (based on a Live-CD) mounts my stick. Do you use a vbox install?
CC: (none) => magnus.mud
(In reply to comment #2) > Cannot confirm. > My full MGA2 KDE (based on a Live-CD) mounts my stick. Well, first difference would be you are at runlevel 5 and I am in runlevel 3. Mine is a Mageia-2-x86_64-DVD.iso clean install. All package groups except LSB and Other graphical desktop managers were selected. > Do you use a vbox install? Hmmmm, I have installed VirtualBox-4.1.16-78094-Linux_amd64.run and Extension Pack from https://www.virtualbox.org/. I am running on the host. Not in a VB guest. If you look over on http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.mageia.user you will find the thread "mounting removeable media on Mageia 2 Gnome 2?" indicating other people which appears to be the same problem.
Pardon, I didn't saw runlevel 3
(In reply to comment #4) > Pardon, I didn't saw runlevel 3 That is ok, I went ahead and set up runlevel 5 and it works. That indicates a runlevel 3 specific problem which may not be related to a desktop manager.
Confirmed for an i586 system with Gnome 3 in fallback mode. runlevel 3, login as a user, startx, plug in USB stick -> not allowed. runlevel 5, login as a user, plug in a USB stick -> opens a window. Can I make it mount at /media/8G instead of /run/media/psd/8G ?
CC: (none) => 0123peter
(In reply to comment #6) > Can I make it mount at /media/8G instead of /run/media/psd/8G ? Guessing that must be a Gnome thing. In runlevel 5 kde, it mounts $ mount | grep usb | grep sdg /dev/sdg1 on /media/usb type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered) I know I can su -l root, mkdir /usb, mount -t auto LABEL=usb /usb or mount -t auto /dev/sdg1 /usb LABEL= works since I labeled it usb while formatting it. $ blkid | grep sdg /dev/sdg1: LABEL="usb" UUID="6c37f057-c41a-4414-96c4-d0428b1b" TYPE="ext4"
Hardware: x86_64 => AllSummary: 2: User is unable to mount usb memory device/stick/drive => 2: User is unable to mount usb stick in runlevel 3
clean install Mageia-3-beta4-x86_64-DVD.iso does not have the problem. That assumes you have enabled automatic mounting of removable media in systemsettings->Removable Devices-> Configure automatic handling of removable storage media
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED