[SOLVED] Can't mount USB devices (not again!)

rubik · 2013-07-16 14:44:30

When I plug in a USB device nothing happens. I elaborate further:
1) Looking at dmesg output I see:

[291464.917672] usb 5-1: new high-speed USB device number 8 using ehci-pci

so at least the system recognizes that a USB device has been plugged in.
2) However, the drive does not show up in fdisk -l
3) When I look into /dev I really don't know what to look for, but /dev/sdb1 or something similar is not present.
1) Thunar is supposed to mount them automatically, but that does not happen. I use thunar with gvfs and the thunar-volman extension, but nothing seems to happen. But I think the problem is deeper than Thunar, see next points.
I read about the "storage" group, but at installation time I didn't create any groups, since the wiki said that with Systemd that is not needed anymore.
May it be a problem with modules? I tried to modprobe random modules, like ehci_hcd, with no success.

Last edited by rubik (2013-07-16 15:49:11)

karol · 2013-07-16 14:48:13

What's the output of 'lsusb' with that pendrive inserted?

rubik · 2013-07-16 14:57:17

lsusb correctly identifies it:

Bus 005 Device 010: ID 13fe:1a00 Kingston Technology Company Inc. 512MB/1GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

I know, it's an old pendrive, but no pendrive works at all, so...

Last edited by rubik (2013-07-16 14:57:25)

Trilby · 2013-07-16 14:59:27

Have you rebooted since your last kernel upgrade? Do `pacman -Qi linux` and `uname -a` give the same version numbers?

karol · 2013-07-16 15:02:14

If you installed a new kernel, reboot your computer.

Last edited by karol (2013-07-16 15:03:36)

rubik · 2013-07-16 15:29:49

Argh, uname -a gives 3.9.8, while pacman 3.9.9. Could it be for as little as that?! Now I'll reboot.

rubik · 2013-07-16 15:48:59

Wow, it was just that. Can you explain a little why that was happening?
Thanks!

karol · 2013-07-16 15:50:10

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=141095

rubik · 2013-07-16 16:05:36

Great, thanks.

hermesolympian · 2013-08-02 09:27:13

Hai all, i have the same problem after update my kernel.
uname -r result is:

 3.10.3-1-ARCH

and pacman -Qi linux result is:

 Name           : linux
Version        : 3.10.3-1
Description    : The Linux kernel and modules
Architecture   : x86_64
URL            : [url]http://www.kernel.org/[/url]
Licenses       : GPL2
Groups         : base
Provides       : kernel26=3.10.3
Depends On     : coreutils  linux-firmware  kmod  mkinitcpio>=0.7
Optional Deps  : crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country
Required By    : backports-patched
Optional For   : None
Conflicts With : kernel26
Replaces       : kernel26
Installed Size : 66457.00 KiB
Packager       : Tobias Powalowski <tpowa@archlinux.org>
Build Date     : Fri 26 Jul 2013 04:32:00 PM WIT
Install Date   : Fri 02 Aug 2013 02:30:30 AM WIT
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : Yes
Validated By   : Signature

What more information should i give for you guys? i'm new in linux. Thanks in advance :)

Trilby · 2013-08-02 11:42:30

hermesolympian, this should not be appended to this thread for a few reasons. First, your problem may share a symptom, but is otherwise completely different from the OPs problem. Second, as this is already marked as SOLVED, you will not likely get any help.

There are some threads though about related issues with 3.10.3, I've only skimmed them, but if this is a usb 3.0 device, then that seems to be a common result. You should check those threads.

hermesolympian · 2013-08-04 09:13:47

ooh, thanks for the advice Trilby. I'll search another forum or make another one then.

sirocco · 2013-08-05 10:08:29

hermesolympian wrote:

I'll search another forum

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1308172 ?

hermesolympian · 2013-08-05 11:27:07

sirocco wrote:

hermesolympian wrote:
I'll search another forum
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1308172 ?

in the end i downgrading kernel into 3.10.2-1. It fix the usb problem.
Thanks for the response sirocco.

Maybe someone will need the information for downgrading:
Link download for downgrading: http://arm.konnichi.com/2013/07/26/core/os/x86_64/
then run:
sudo pacman -U linux-3.10.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz linux-headers-3.10.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

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