Bug#612119: nautilus: Fails to automount usb stick, gives error

[Andrew Simpson]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.30.1-2
Severity: normal
Tags: lfs

New install of squeeze on Acer Aspire One using default installer.

Plugging in usb stick gives a pop-up error message:

"Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
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"

Tried with several different sticks and different file systems (FAT 32 & ext2).

dmesg gives:

[   31.444149] usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
[   31.579214] usb 1-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1607
[   31.579230] usb 1-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[   31.579243] usb 1-2: Product: DataTraveler 2.0
[   31.579253] usb 1-2: Manufacturer: Kingston
[   31.579262] usb 1-2: SerialNumber: 000AEB91BC94A91085700043
[   31.579631] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[   31.645385] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[   31.645716] scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[   31.646170] usb-storage: device found at 3
[   31.646177] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[   31.646227] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[   31.646239] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[   36.644515] usb-storage: device scan complete
[   36.645614] scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00
PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[   36.649694] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] 31506432 512-byte logical blocks: (16.1
GB/15.0 GiB)
[   36.650394] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[   36.650417] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[   36.650434] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   36.654884] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   36.654913]  sdb: sdb1
[   36.886519] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[   36.886545] sd 2:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[   37.663594] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[   37.663603] UDF-fs: Rescanning with blocksize 2048
[   37.665349] UDF-fs: No VRS found
[   37.665357] UDF-fs: No partition found (1)
[   37.735006] ISOFS: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.

Mounting manually works:

asimpson at debian-netbook:~$ mount /dev/sdb /mnt
mount: only root can do that
asimpson at debian-netbook:~$ su root
Password:
root at debian-netbook:/home/asimpson# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
root at debian-netbook:/home/asimpson#




-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_NZ.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_NZ.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils     0.15-2            Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gvfs                   1.6.4-3           userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0            1.30.0-1          The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                  2.11.2-10         Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii  libcairo2              1.8.10-6          The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2       0.88-2.1          simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3             2.1.1-1           library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12              0.6.19-1          library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail18              2.20.1-2          GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4            2.28.1-6          GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.24.2-1          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libglib2.0-data        2.24.2-1          Common files for GLib library
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-17  2.30.2-2          Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0            2.20.1-2          The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                2:1.0.6-2         X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1 2.30.1-2          libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0          1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1            2.0.96-1          SELinux runtime shared libraries
ii  libsm6                 2:1.1.1-1         X11 Session Management library
ii  libunique-1.0-0        1.1.6-1.1         Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6               2:1.3.3-4         X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                2.7.8.dfsg-2      GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1            1:0.9.6-1         X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data          2.30.1-2          data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info       0.71-4            FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  app-install-d 2010.11.17                 Application Installer Data Files
ii  brasero       2.30.3-2                   CD/DVD burning application for GNO
ii  consolekit    0.4.1-4                    framework for defining and trackin
ii  desktop-base  6.0.5                      common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject         2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-7.1 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  gvfs-backends 1.6.4-3                    userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  librsvg2-comm 2.26.3-1                   SAX-based renderer library for SVG
ii  synaptic      0.70~pre1+b1               Graphical package manager

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog                           2.30.2-1   Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]           2.30.3-2   Document (PostScript, PDF) viewer
ii  totem                         2.30.2-6   A simple media player for the GNOM
pn  tracker                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  xdg-user-dirs                 0.13-2     tool to manage well known user dir

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