On 17 Mar 13:05, Chris Green wrote:
I have been trying to diganose/fix this automount problem for quite a while.
Automount of CDs, DVDs and USB sticks works fine on two of my xubuntu 11.10 systems but not on my desktop system.
While trying to diagnose this I have found that it makes a difference using a remote display!
If I run thunar on my system called 'test' where it works I see:-
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unknown block device type. ... and the USB stick automounts fine.If I do exactly the same except by a remote ssh connection to 'test' from my desktop system 'chris', I see:-
thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unsupported USB device type. thunar-volman: Unknown block device type. thunar-volman: Could not detect the volume corresponding to the device. ... and the USB stick *doesn't* automount.When I run thunar locally on my desktop system I see the same output (and failure to mount) that I see when running via ssh on 'test'.
What on earth is going one?
Try, on the one that isn't working: sudo modprobe vfat
Then plugin the stick again. If it works, then the issue is that you haven't got the vfat module loaded by default.