I just rebuilt my mandriva machine (10.2) using the Cds and ran a bunch of updates and now, my machine no longer mounts or even recognizes usb devices (key and mp3 players).

Before I rebuilt it, whenever i would plug in one of these mandriva (or kde) or whatever controls this, would mount it immediately allowing me to move files, etc.

then, when I pulled it out, it would dissapear from the browser.

I hate to say this, but it worked just as good as XP in this department.


BUT....

now it only mounts usb devices if I have them plugged in when i boot the machine!

AND...


If i try mount /mnt/removable I get a "not in mstab or mtab error"

help.

Go into your Control Center > Desktop > Device ICons tab. Check the Show device icons and then check the other items you want or all of them if you wish. This will display icons of devices that are detected. See if that helps.

As far as the mount unless it is in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab then mount will not mount like you are trying. You can see what is happening by using the command ' cat /etc/fstab ' before plugging in the usb device and then again after to see if a line is added automatically to it.

Brian1

Nothing gets added to the fstab after plugging it in even though the machine seems to do something for a few seconds (lights and noise from the tower).

Check boxes do not make any difference.

I had a similar problem. I found that if edited /etc/lilo.conf by deleting the line "initrd=/boot/initrd.img", the system boots with all usb functions working as they should.

Thanks, but it didn't help.

What does that line do, should I put it back in?

not sure what this means, but I went into webmin-->system--boot and found that it had USB listed (not in control panel though).

I tried to run it and got this output

Executing /etc/rc.d/init.d/usb start ..
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 9: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 10: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 9: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 10: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
Initializing USB controller (uhci-hcd): [ OK ]
Initializing USB controller (ehci-hcd): [ OK ]
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 9: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 10: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
Loading USB printer [ OK ]
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 9: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 10: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 9: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 10: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 9: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'
WARNING: /etc/modprobe.conf line 10: ignoring bad line starting with 'blacklist'

PS

I get tons of the modprobe warning messages during boot (after I updated my mandriva)

As root type in:
lsmod | grep usb

Do you see the module usb-storage listed?

If not try entering:

modprobe usb-storage

I'm experiencing a similar lack of usb auto mounting of the memory stick in a K750i in Mandriva 2006. I've got to the point of figuring out (via Google) that usb-storage is not being autoloaded. Now to find the most appropriate place to get it to autoload....

I had similar problem, solved by running HAL daemon and hotplug
(I think I had disabled HAL service, and it took me ages to find
that this was were I had broken the USB "automount" / icones thing).
All these usb scripts are hard to follow

Thanks, but I solved this by reinstalling mandriva and making sure to NOT run updates from any source other than the official updates.

Everything is working again.

I never did get automounting of usb devices resolved. It wouldn't automount my digital cam.

Problem seems to have been that udev was not starting. I never did discover why the "service udev start" in "rc.sysinit" didn't work, such that I had to add the same statement in again in "rc.local" to make it work.