USB mass storage not automounting (thunar?)

[Chris Green]

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 10:13:25PM +0100, Mike Massonnet wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Le mercredi 07 mars 2012 à 19:50 +0000, Chris Green a écrit :
> > On a 64-bit xubuntu 11.10 system USB drives are not automounting and,
> > thus, appearing in thunar.
> 
> This doesn't sound correct. It's not because the storage doesn't
> automount, that it doesn't appear in the left pane of thunar. If the
> drive doesn't show up at all, it indicates another problem unrelated to
> Thunar.
> 
It all appears OK in dmesg (see below), I can mount the USB manually
with no problem.

> > All the right things are enabled in "Removable Drives and Media" in
> > system settings as far as I can see.
> > 
> > Any ideas what might be wrong?  (I have a 32-bit xubuntu 11.10 system
> > where automount is working perfectly).
> 
> (Short) output of 'dmesg' after your inserted the USB drive.
> Output of 'lsusb' to see if the drive appears at all.
> 
Output of dmesg after plugging USB stick in:-

    [ 5942.536882] usb 2-1.1: new high speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
    [ 5942.632452] scsi10 : usb-storage 2-1.1:1.0
    [ 5943.633638] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
    [ 5943.700883] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
    [ 5943.702390] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 3905407 512-byte logical blocks: (1.99 GB/1.86 GiB)
    [ 5943.704363] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
    [ 5943.704371] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 0b 00 00 08
    [ 5943.705070] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
    [ 5943.705076] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
    [ 5943.707733] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
    [ 5943.707738] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
    [ 5943.746399]  sdd: sdd1
    [ 5943.748730] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
    [ 5943.748736] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
    [ 5943.748741] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

... and lsusb:-

    Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
    Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
    Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
    Bus 001 Device 003: ID 046d:c408 Logitech, Inc. Marble Mouse (4-button)
    Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0951:1607 Kingston Technology DataTraveler 100
    Bus 002 Device 004: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)

It's the DataTraveler I have just plugged in.


> Is gvfs and its backends installed?
> 
Seems to be, I have gvfs, gvfs-fuse, gvfs-bin and gvfs-backends installed.

... but nothing appears on screen and thunar doesn't pop up.

-- 
Chris Green