Re: Ubuntu stopped automounting camera

Post #324,224 by NMI 4/7/10 10:36:05 PM Reply	Re: Ubuntu stopped automounting camera I tried the following for an extra HDD, not sure if it would work for cameras: In Terminal - sudo apt-get install pysdm Now that pysdm is installed, you'll find it under System > Administration > Storage Device Manager Starting it, you'll see your list of drives on the left pane. Select the drive and partition you want (this assumes you know how to do that already) and click Assistant. In assistant choose at least The file system is mounted at boot time along with any other options you might want. Apply and reboot to verify it's working.
Post #324,233 by drook 4/8/10 8:32:27 AM Reply	Found that, one problem That works for mounting something that's connected at startup. I need to hotplug a USB device. -- Drew
Post #324,353 by scoenye 4/10/10 1:20:31 AM Reply	/dev/sdb1 implies USB storage mode libgphoto is necessary for PTP cameras as those do not create /dev entries. That is probably why the hints higher up didn't help out. http://www.debian-ad....org/articles/127 The above is a tutorial on how to set udev and autofs up to automount USB storage devices. The last two comments (Jan and Mar 2010) read like they have the same issue you ran into. It looks like a change to autofs may be the cause (although the switch to v5 seems to have been underway for a couple of years). One got things going by adding an autofs line to /etc/nsswitch.conf Is there anything in /var/log/debug related to autofs?
Post #324,384 by drook 4/10/10 2:49:33 PM Reply	Tried it, but no I didn't have autofs installed, so I tried following the steps in that article. No joy. But since I didn't have autofs before the last kernel update and it was working, it seems I've got some other problem. As for /var/log/debug it's showing: Apr 10 14:40:52 drook-desktop kernel: [1518832.644828] usb-storage: device found at 19 Apr 10 14:40:52 drook-desktop kernel: [1518832.644832] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Apr 10 14:40:57 drook-desktop kernel: [1518837.645929] usb-storage: device scan complete Apr 10 14:40:57 drook-desktop kernel: [1518837.666881] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 04 00 00 00 To me that looks like everything is detected properly. And a manual mount works just fine. Guess I'll wait to see if a future kernel update fixes it. -- Drew
Post #324,400 by scoenye 4/10/10 6:05:19 PM Reply	One last far flung try... http://michael-peete...blems-of-usb.html He found ndiswrapper (compatibility layer for MS WiFi drivers) had been registered as the driver for USB mass storage devices. And also that ndiswrapper now seems to be part of the base Ubuntu installation... Any way, if you get the /dev/sdb link, then the kernel is pretty much done with it. Everything beyond that is userspace, so I think the problem is on that side.
Post #324,401 by drook 4/10/10 6:13:09 PM Reply	Will take a look, but not hopeful Like I said I can mount it manually and it works fine. It's just the automount that isn't happening. You're right that that's in userspace, but it was after my last reboot -- which only happens for kernel changes -- that it stopped working. -- Drew

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