Gnome 3.16 not auto mounting USB storage devices

Nocturne · 2015-05-13 15:55:44

First off, my apologies if this has been covered elsewhere and I have missed it. I have both searched and browsed these forums and nothing jumped out at me as being similar to my problem.

Some background:
At some point during the last week or so, my Gnome 3.16 desktop stopped auto mounting my USB storage devices. I normally do updates about twice a week on this system, and I suppose it was after one of these updates that it stopped working. However, since I don't always plug a USB storage device in every day, I can't pin down exactly when this stopped functioning.

Things I have tried:
-Updating again(obviously).

-Mounting the USB storage device manually. As root, I can mount the device and the icon shows on the desktop. I can read the files in the "Files(Nautilus)" window.

-Watching the output of dmesg -w as I insert the device and then remove the device.

[ 2117.637801] usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
[ 2117.651755] usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
[ 2117.651839] scsi host14: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
[ 2118.655236] scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     MUSHKIN  MKNUFDVP32GB     PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
[ 2118.655725] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] 61767680 512-byte logical blocks: (31.6 GB/29.4 GiB)
[ 2118.655850] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[ 2118.655856] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
[ 2118.655974] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
[ 2118.804109]  sdd: sdd1
[ 2118.804893] sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 2120.792639] usb 4-1: USB disconnect, device number 9

-Watching the output of journalctl -f as I insert the device and then remove the device.

May 13 09:42:26 hawkstech kernel: usb 4-1: new SuperSpeed USB device number 9 using xhci_hcd
May 13 09:42:26 hawkstech kernel: usb-storage 4-1:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected
May 13 09:42:26 hawkstech kernel: scsi host14: usb-storage 4-1:1.0
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel: scsi 14:0:0:0: Direct-Access     MUSHKIN  MKNUFDVP32GB     PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] 61767680 512-byte logical blocks: (31.6 GB/29.4 GiB)
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 00
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel:  sdd: sdd1
May 13 09:42:27 hawkstech kernel: sd 14:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
May 13 09:42:29 hawkstech kernel: usb 4-1: USB disconnect, device number 9
May 13 09:42:29 hawkstech systemd-udevd[251]: error opening USB device 'descriptors' file

-In desperation, reinstalling all installed packages via pacman -Qenq | pacman -S -

So, my question is, where else should I be looking for a problem? What else should I try? Any hints or suggestions would be quite welcome. Thank you for your time!

Edit 05/13/15 10:13 AM:
More information. On another working system, I see that these devices are being mounted under the /run/media/$USER/(devicename) directory. On this non-working system, there is no /run/media directory. After creating the directory with the same user, group, and permissions, still nothing. How are the username directories created in /run/media/? And why is this directory structure gone?

Last edited by Nocturne (2015-05-13 16:22:05)

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Gnome 3.16 not auto mounting USB storage devices

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