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

[Ron Singh]

No specific recommendations for you, but I thought I would share an
experience. This --
- Host laptop = Thinkpad W540 decently tricked out and sporting a USBB3
Sandisk Nano 256G USB stick stuck in the side
- W540 ran Mint Cinnamon 20 well enough, but will throw up a
fast-disappearing gargly message saying something to the effect of "can't
whatever whatever to whatever-bus after being "suspended". This happens
after waking from a SUSPEND. Problem does not happen from a cold boot
- The USB 256Gigger does not automount after waking from sleep, popping
into gnome-disk-utility(aka DISKS in Mint), shows the drive, attempts to
mount the drive throws out a message, something along the lines of "drive
not ready". This problem does not exist when starting up the laptop from a
cold boot.
- Upgrading(a couple of days ago) to Mint 20.1 -- no diff same issues.
- This past Sunday, blow the drive away, clean load Mint 20.1 and apply all
updates. No error messages being thrown up about coming alive from
SUSPEND,  Sandisk USB stick always automounts  when laptop comes up from
SUSPEND or a cold boot.

My daughter killed many hours dealing with this(her messing-around laptop)
and found that the baremetal Mint 20.1 solved all her issues,
Also, she is a fiend about rebooting after applying updates and installing
her own suite of apps.

Mebbe some of the above might be helpful to you?


Thanks,

Ron S.



On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:00 PM John Driezen <jdriezen at sympatico.ca> 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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