fedora 18 unable to mount any usb based device

Gianluca Cecchi gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 01:21:35 UTC 2013


Hello,
I get errors and nothing mounted when inserting usb key, disk or ipod
on my Fedora 18...

It seems it is not able to create special files:
when inserting for example a key like this

# fdisk -l /dev/sdc

Disk /dev/sdc: 1018 MB, 1018167296 bytes, 1988608 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xcdf165a5

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdc1              61     1987135      993537+   6  FAT16

in messages I get
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.005496] usb 2-1: new
high-speed USB device number 4 using ehci_hcd
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.120834] usb 2-1: New USB
device found, idVendor=0204, idProduct=6025
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.120846] usb 2-1: New USB
device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.120854] usb 2-1: Product: Flash Disk
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.120860] usb 2-1: Manufacturer: USB0804C
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.120865] usb 2-1: SerialNumber:
18100900571E9C06
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman kernel: [  420.122468] scsi10 : usb-storage 2-1:1.0
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman mtp-probe: checking bus 2, device 4:
"/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:13.2/usb2/2-1"
Jan 28 02:15:41 tekkaman mtp-probe: bus: 2, device: 4 was not an MTP device
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.124891] scsi 10:0:0:0:
Direct-Access     USB0804C Flash Disk       5.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.126752] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached
scsi generic sg3 type 0
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.127416] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
1988608 512-byte logical blocks: (1.01 GB/971 MiB)
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.127986] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
Write Protect is off
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.128487] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No
Caching mode page present
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.128494] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.131852] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No
Caching mode page present
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.131864] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.132482]  sdc: sdc1
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.135966] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] No
Caching mode page present
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.135977] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
Assuming drive cache: write through
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman kernel: [  421.135984] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc]
Attached SCSI removable disk
Jan 28 02:15:42 tekkaman systemd-udevd[2854]: inotify_add_watch(7,
/dev/sdc1, 10) failed: No such file or directory

and in /dev only special file for the whole disk is generated
# ll /dev/sdc*
brw-rw----. 1 root disk 8, 32 Jan 28 02:15 /dev/sdc

Tried also to update to latest version but no way....
any known bug on this?

Thanks
Gianluca


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