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LordRaiden

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Registered: 2007-03-12

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Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

I installed dbus and hal, and I put myself into storage and optical (I didn't put myself into dbus and hal - seems to make no difference). I'm using thunar-volman

CDs work fine (icon shows up and thunar opens with the CD's contents).

My USB key doesn't work. I checked under /dev and there was no additional /dev/sdb (/dev/sda is my hard drive). I don't even get a DBus error. So I cannot mount my USB key manually.

I tried plugging in a USB mouse to check my USB controller, and it is working as expected.

I recently reinstalled Arch (yesterday)  and before the newer versions of the packages (since April 30) everything was working fine.

Many thanks in advance.

Last edited by LordRaiden (2007-06-07 20:50:52)

kano

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Registered: 2007-05-04

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

Does it show anything in dmesg when you plug in the usb key?

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LordRaiden

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Registered: 2007-03-12

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

Sorry forgot to mention that (knew I forgot something). No dmesg doesn't show anything when I plug in the USB key.

JaDa

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From: Sun City, CA (native German)

Registered: 2007-04-06

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

I am stuck with the same problem.

Have you Install autofs? I was follow this wiki!
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AutoFS_HowTo

I see that my stick is blinking 2 times but it doesn't show up!

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LordRaiden

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Registered: 2007-03-12

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

No, I haven't tried AutoFS. I managed to get it working without it until I reinstalled Arch. I don't even get flashing LEDs.

I'm going to check out my USB key later today on some other machines to see if it is still functional. Either way, I'm worried since I am not getting anything under /dev or dmesg.

Davigetto

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Registered: 2007-05-10

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

pacman -S pmount

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ramoneur

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Registered: 2007-06-04

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

im all new to linux, but maybe this can help anyways, its worth a try atleast.
i think you have to be in the group tty to get usb drives to function. i read about it while installing arch some days ago.

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hanman

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Registered: 2007-05-16

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

i was having the same problem until i added my user to group tty as mentioned above.  this fixed my problem.

ataraxia

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Registered: 2007-05-06

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

Just as an additional data point, I'm also using Thunar-volman and my USB drives automount just fine (even the weird ones with Apple partition maps and HFS+ filesystems).

So it's not something basic that's broken.

JaDa

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

How do I fixed my problem.
I used the HowTo for Hal
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

all works fine now!
You can also see this tread from the USA Linux User Group
http://usalug.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=11030

cheers
JaDa

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LordRaiden

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Re: Can't mount USB key [SOLVED]

Sorry, false alarm. The USB key definitely dead.