• omns
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Topic: [solved]usb mount error in statler

An unusual problem I've never struck before. I used a flash drive to install statler on an Aspire One. I can still mount and dismount this drive in thunar. However, the mount rules it is using for this drive seem to have taken over /dev/sdb1 and I can't mount any other drive unless this Crunchbang Live is mounted first. Without it mounted first, trying to mount anything else produces this error.

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error
       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail  or so.

mseg | tail gives me this

[ 9509.730064] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9509.730081]  sdb: sdb1
[ 9509.734187] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 9509.734201] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 9512.507809] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 9512.507821] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[ 9512.569306] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[ 9512.569317] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[ 9512.610531] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
[ 9521.592520] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 8

cat /etc/mtab with the Crunchbang drive mounted gives me this 

/dev/sda4 / ext4 rw,errors=remount-ro 0 0
tmpfs /lib/init/rw tmpfs rw,nosuid,mode=0755 0 0
proc /proc proc rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev 0 0
udev /dev tmpfs rw,mode=0755 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620 0 0
fusectl /sys/fs/fuse/connections fusectl rw 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /media/cdrom0 iso9660 rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=omns 0 0

I'm assuming this is a hal or udev problem but i'm not sure where to start. It makes no differences how the drive is formatted and I can reproduce this error in other file managers so I know it's not thunar's fault.

Any ideas?

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Re: [solved]usb mount error in statler

Im not sure how helpfull this is.

I had a problem in 10.04 with mounting usb drives..I had to install a Modprobe USB.
I have no clue what it is,But it worked.

Maybe something like this on your #! got removed or deleted.

  • omns
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Re: [solved]usb mount error in statler

I think I was too tired when looking at this before. It occurred to me later that the drive was being loaded as a cdrom, which lead me to fstab and an entry that the installer must have made to mount /dev/sdb1 as a cdrom. Commenting out this entry solved the problem.

Why is it we never see the most obvious answers? roll I definitely need more sleep wink

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