[kwlug-disc] Problem with Linux Mint 20 Automounting Drives

[John Driezen]

dmesg reports the following after a usb thumb drive is inserted:

[8299.022199] usb 1-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci-pci
[ 8299.131912] usb 1-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, 
idProduct=5597, bcdDevice= 1.00
[ 8299.131915] usb 1-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, 
SerialNumber=3
[ 8299.131917] usb 1-1.2: Product: Cruzer Glide 3.0
[ 8299.131919] usb 1-1.2: Manufacturer: SanDisk
[ 8299.131921] usb 1-1.2: SerialNumber: 
0401c2d27ca910db2543803cbf05739030ce8b126abc7d2b9da993d11b38113666200000000000000000000010237f2500181218975581072c28a24a
[ 8299.132442] usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 8299.132660] scsi host6: usb-storage 1-1.2:1.0
[ 8300.151378] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer Glide 3.0 
1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6
[ 8300.151743] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg9 type 0
[ 8300.152572] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdi] 120176640 512-byte logical blocks: 
(61.5 GB/57.3 GiB)
[ 8300.153902] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdi] Write Protect is off
[ 8300.153905] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdi] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00
[ 8300.154911] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdi] Write cache: disabled, read cache: 
enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 8300.198055]  sdi: sdi1
[ 8300.202284] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdi] Attached SCSI removable disk

John Driezen

jdriezen at sympatico.ca

On 2021-01-13 5:19 p.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
> So what does dmesg report?
>
> - Paul
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 05:25:05AM -0500, John Driezen wrote:
>> On 2021-01-13 12:22 a.m., Paul Nijjar via kwlug-disc wrote:
>>> In the bad state, what does dmesg report when you plug in a USB flash
>>> drive?
>>>
>>> Can you manually mount the flash drive once you put it in, if it does
>>> not automount?
>> Yes, I can manually mount the flash drive if the flash drive does not
>> automount.
>>
>>> It certainly seems as if you are booting into two different
>>> configurations, but I do not have a good sense of what might be
>>> different.
>>>
>> Neither do I, which is why I asked for help.
>>> - Paul
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 08:08:12PM -0500, John Driezen wrote:
>>>> I am having a problem with Linux Mint 20. It is booting fine, and works fine
>>>> but will not automount usb thumb drives.� The desktop shows 4 drives: efi,
>>>> root filesystem, and my two hard drives by uuid name as shown in the first
>>>> picture.
>>>>
>>>> When I first installed Linux Mint 20, the desktop booted and showed just the
>>>> two hard drives, a 1 TB volume and a 2 TB volume shown in the second
>>>> picture.� Automounting thumb drives and audio cds worked just fine.�
>>>> Occasionally I can boot to this state. I would like to always boot to this
>>>> state.
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have any idea what is going on?� I'm at a loss to explain or
>>>> resolve this issue.� The issue has persisted across multiple kernel
>>>> updates.� I have subsequently upgraded to Linux Mint 20.1 as well.� More
>>>> detailed system information can be given.� This issue is a minor annoyance,
>>>> but nothing game breaking.
>>>>
>>>> John Driezen
>>>>
>>>> jdriezen at sympatico.ca
>>>>
>>>
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