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

[Paul Nijjar]

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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