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Re: [trinity-users] Failed to mount SD card

From: ant <aw30@...>
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 18:10:47 +1300
On Wed, 30 Sep 2015, Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > Inserting an SD card into the reader gives a desktop icon.
> >
> > fdisk -l  gives:
> > 	/dev/sdc1  *     8192 15759359 15751168  7.5G  b W95 FAT32
> >
> > and I can mount it as root and read it fine using:
> > 	mount /dev/sdc1 /media/camera/
> >
> > But trying to mount it with konqueror gives:
> >
> > Unable to mount this device.
> > Potential reasons include:
> > Improper device and/or user privilege level
> > Corrupt data on storage device
> > Technical details:
> > No supported mounting methods were detected on your system
> >
> > Any clues, anyone?
> > (Trinity R14.0.1. And kded is running)
> > cheers
> >
> > ant
> 
> Most likely you don't have permission to mount removeable storage devices.
>  IIRC you need to be a member of the plugdev group on Ubuntu.
> 
> TDE uses udisks to handle the actual mount/umount operation, so all
> conditions for the use of udisks need to be met before removable storage
> mount/unmount will work under TDE.
> 
> Hope this helps!

Thank you for the hint - I didn't have udisks (or udisks2?) installed, so I 
have installed it, and now I get no desktop icon.
But I can mount it from the cli, possibly because I have an fstab entry.
But experiments are continuing...

cheers

ant

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