Kubuntu: HAL doesn't automount USB devices on KDE 3.5.5
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| hal (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: hal
Since the last HAL update I can't automount any USB devices; althought the devices are detected by the kernel, no icon shows up on the desktop. I have to mount/unmount manually.
I had no problems at all with the pre-update HAL. Also, the problem only appears in Kubuntu; Ubuntu Dapper on the same computer detects and automounts everything normally.
The output of dmesg after inserting e.g. my Packard MP3 player is:
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[17346874.108000] usb 4-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 5
[17346877.416000] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[17346877.416000] usb-storage: device found at 5
[17346877.416000] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[17346882.420000] Vendor: Packard Model: Portable Player Rev: 0100
[17346882.420000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
[17346882.424000] SCSI device sda: 2039040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1044 MB)
[17346882.428000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17346882.428000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17346882.428000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17346882.440000] SCSI device sda: 2039040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1044 MB)
[17346882.440000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17346882.440000] sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[17346882.440000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17346882.440000] sda: sda1
[17346882.448000] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
[17346882.448000] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
[17346882.452000] usb-storage: device scan complete
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Similarly, lsusb reports:
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Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:c03e Logitech, Inc. Premium Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 005: ID 066f:8252 SigmaTel, Inc.
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 03f0:011d Hewlett-Packard
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
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Where "Hewlett-Packard" is the mp3 player.
On the kubuntu-users mailing list, I was referred to the following as a possible cause of the problem:
http://
They suggested that J. Riddell's packages (with a "1" in the end, rather than a "2") solved the problem.
I am using an up-to-date Kubuntu Dapper with the stock kernel 2.6.15-27-686 and KDE 3.5.5 on a HP-Compaq nc6120.
| SilentPh03nix (silentph03nix) wrote | #1 |
| Urtzi Jauregi (urtzi) wrote | #2 |
| mindspin (markus-wimmer) wrote | #3 |
| SilentPh03nix (silentph03nix) wrote | #4 |
| steph_Z (polariscorp) wrote | #5 |
| Konrad Materka (kmaterka) wrote | #6 |
I also have this issue. I will just mirror the above comments and add that this is happening on two of my machines. One a whitebox AMD with a USB2.0 external hard drive and the other an Dell Inspiron 9100 laptop with an iomega USB2.0 hard drive, a Fuji F700 Camera, and a Sandisk Cruzer flash drive. All work fine in GNOME, but KDE sees the device and asks to mount it, but nothing appears after asking for mount. I can use pmount to mount the device from the command line manually. I haven't yet attempted to load the above mentioned fix to see if that fixes the issue on either of my machines. My machines were both loaded with Ubuntu 6.06.1 Dapper with stock kernel, and then added kubuntu-desktop. I then have upgraded both to KDE 3.5.5. Both are kept up to date with update manager.