On 23/05/18 19:48, Bev Nicolson wrote:
What's the best thing to do if your pc decides, of its own volition, not to recognise any form of device, be it your MP3 player, your phone or a usb stick? Try to manually mount the thing? (Found some instructions.) Reboot?
It refused last night, it was fine this morning.
I've had this happen to me on occasion, but generally with an older machine. I've tried various things. Look at the log files & dmesg & see if you can see why it's happening - in my case it was just not detecting that there was any changes in the number of USB devices installed. If it's not detecting a new device has been installed/connected, then I don't know that there's anything you can do. If on the other hand, you see some sort of error, you can try and fix it.
I don't have any good answers. Think if anything has changed or been updated. See if there are any updates you can apply. Reboot and/or live with it are the only options that I can think of.
It could be a hardware error, a software error or a configuration error & unless you can find an error message it may be hard to get to the bottom of. It might be worth, just in case, making backups of all important information, just in case!
Sorry I can't really be helpful.
Steve