[sclug] USB flash devices in Kubuntu

[Dickon Hood]

On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:38:10 +0100, Peter Brewer wrote:
: Dear All,

: I've just done a clean install on Kubuntu "Dapper Drake" on two machines 
: and although generally it is a great improvement I do have one very 
: annoying problem!  Neither machine will hotplug USB flash memory devices 
: or external hard drives.  KDE pops up the normal message saying:
: - "a new medium has been detected, what do you want to do?"

: but when I try and open it I get a KDE message saying:
: - "Could not mount device. The reported error was: mount: can't find 
: /dev/sdc1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab"

: The drives are fine and mounted properly in Breezy.  I can also mount 
: the devices manually in Dapper - but this is a real fag.  Anyone had 
: similar problems?

I've had the same problem in Debian.  Oddly, we were discussing this last
night in the pub...

It's a problem with udev (the dynamic /dev/ thing).  I've found it easier
to manually mknod the device files in the past (you'll want:

mknod /dev/sdc1 b 8 33

in all probability), but there's rules-based thing you're supposed to do
instead.

One of these days I'll sort it all out properly...

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Dickon Hood

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