[GTALUG] dmesg not reporting the mount point on USB insert

William Witteman wwitteman at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 10:43:33 EDT 2018


Thanks to all for your help!  I dug into it, and somehow usb-storage wasn't
running.  I probably could have manually started it, but I tried a reboot
first.  That works!

Always a bit embarrassing to use the Windows solution, but when it works,
it works.

Thanks again.

On Fri, Mar 16, 2018, 13:50 Bob Jonkman via talk <talk at gtalug.org> wrote:

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> Or perhaps 'lsblk' will give you the info you need...
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> - --Bob, who needs to proofread before pressing "send"
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> On 2018-03-16 07:18 AM, Bob Jonkman via talk wrote:
> > Perhaps 'lslblk' will give you the info you need...
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> > --Bob.
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> > On 2018-03-15 05:01 PM, William Witteman via talk wrote:
> >> In the past, when I stuck a USB stick in to my computer, I would
> >> look at dmesg and see that the device had been assigned a place
> >> in /dev. This week, I can see the device's details (Lexar,
> >> Sandisk, whatever), but there is no line for where I can address
> >> that device.  Graphical file managers are also not showing the
> >> inserted media (I have tried several different sticks and card
> >> readers).
> >
> >> I imagine that something changed in Debian that has lead to
> >> this, but I can't tell what's missing. ehci is picking up the
> >> device insertion, but not giving me a place to use in a mount
> >> line. Anyone have any thoughts?
> >
> >> Thanks.
> >
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