Your flash drive not auto mounting in Ubuntu, Kubuntu (maybe Xubuntu too) 9.10 32 or 64 bit like it used to in 9.04?
Try to install udev from proposed for now. Fire up your software sources and you need to enable “Pre-release updates”, close the app and from a console / terminal you have to type in
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install udev
You may untick “Pre release updates” afterwards.
Reboot your machine (or restart udev) and everything should be auto mounting again.
I hope Ubuntu picks this up fast and make it into its regular update.
UPDATE: As of 23 November 2009, udev-147~-6.1 is already in the updates. So all you have to do is update udev and you should be good to go!
UPDATE: I have reverted back to previous udev version udev-147~-6 because of pulseadio memory leak. Now if you will need to insert a flash drive, a restart of udev might be a temporary fix until Ubuntu fixes this showstopper bug.
I use the Karmic.I tried that and it showed my udev is the latest.It’s pretty weird that I have to restart udev each time I login by
sudo stop udev
sudo start udev
then it automounted.
Are you sure you got the one from “Pre-release updates”?
My udev version shows according to Kubuntu’s package installer
udev-147~-6.1 (amd64)
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I am running Karmic Kubuntu, 64bit, and I have udev 147~-6.1 installed. No matter what I do, I cannot get automount to work.
I am really sorry to hear that
But here are some things I might do in your situation
1. Try stopping udev and starting again. If it mounts your flash drive then really most likely udev is the criminal. You can make the Ubuntu guys know your plight and wait for an update from them
2. If you are sure that it works in previous versions of Ubuntu (or whatever you are using), try to install that release instead. I mean 9.04 is not yet a year old so it is not outdated at all. Or you may want an LTS release for more stability
Today I updated the new udev (147~-6.1). The automount works.
Good to hear that. But unfortunately, it seems that there is still a lot of people having issues despite updating to that udev version.
Same thing here. Even *with* 147-6.1, automount only works on *one* of my drives, which is the same behavior I had with the non-pre-release version.
Sure, tehre’s quite a few nice changes in Karmic, but I’m finding enough critical things are broken that I think I’ll have to wipe the system and go back to 9.04, and wait for the 9.10.1 version that will probably be coming out.
Ubuntu 9.10 bugs are very much documented online. Read about some in the distrowatch weekly in here
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20091109#news
I am enjoying 9.10 and the only bug that I have found is this auto mounting thing for flashdrives which luckily I was able to fix. The whole desktop experience with this release is just unmatched- whether Kubuntu or Ubuntu (I am on Ubuntu now).
JamesL,
Haven’t heard of Ubuntu planning any 9.10.1. They do that for LTS and as far as I know 9.10 is not.
Care to tell us where you got the information about 9.10.1?
But I would agree with you that 9.10 needs a lot of updates to fix some things. 9.10 introduced numerous innovations so it would not be a surprise if some things are broken along the way.
Maybe 9.10 was rushed a little? They released 9.10 on the 29th before the month ended.
Hallo,
(my english is not so good, I’m dutch speaking from Belgium)
I don’t know if your trick is working, but in the alpha of 10.04 this problem is fix. they mount at the start. What I did is this: I copy de lines for my usb-sticks in /etc/mtab from the 10.04 (you can take the mtab of 9.04 or 8.04) and past it in de mtab of 9.10 (with root offcourse) and it works.
So, maybe this helps somebody with this problem. It’s not the right way, but it works (so far).
One member of the dutch ubuntu forum say to install the original Debian packages of “usbmount” and that works fine for me. Here de link to the file. It’s a .deb.:
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/usbmount/usbmount_0.0.18_all.deb
Bug-info:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/usbmount/+bug/478487
(http://packages.debian.org/nl/sid/usbmount)
update:
it did fix my automounting but from then on pulseaudio has been leaking quite bad.
may laptop has 3gb ram and 4gb swap. there was a time pulseaudio took up almost all of that ram and swap.
so from a new install- your flash drive will not be automounting by default. if you upgrade udev to 147~6.1 your flash drive will again automount but you will have pulseaudio leaking quite often.
so which poison will you choose.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8420660#post8420660
I have reverted back to my previous version of udev. hope pulseaudio won’t leak from now on.
Thankz for the informations!
there is already a pulseadio update in proposed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pulseaudio/+bug/424655?comments=all
you have to update udev and get the pulseaudio update from proposed.
but what took this bug so long to get fixed is something i can’t think about. it’s been there since karmic was released.
and this has made me to try out debian- which has so far taken away lots of my time
I have just installed ubuntu 9.10 (I am a complete newbie to Linux) and I can’t get my USB drive to mount. I have followed the advice above and I have udev 147~6.1 showing in synaptic. I have tried sudo stop udev and sudo start udev but to no avail. In Computer, there is no trace of my usb drive. The drive works on my other computer running Windows XP. Can you offer any advice (with clear instructions for a confirmed muppet! Thanks
Sam
Hi Sam sorry for the late reply. Have you used your usb drive in previous versions of Ubuntu?
Try inserting your USB drive then reboot your computer. It should have it mounted already.
To avoid this hassle- upgrade udev (which I think you have already done). Unfortunately, pulseaudio would leak memory once in a while so you need to update pulseadio either from proposed or it might already be in the main updates.
Good luck!
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