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After a recent upgrade, the USB devices are not appearing in desktop or launcher.

  • When plugged in, devices power up. lsusb shows this output,
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Bus 001 Device 005: ID 174c:5106 ASMedia Technology Inc. Transcend StoreJet 25M3
Bus 002 Device 006: ID 0411:0098 BUFFALO INC. (formerly MelCo., Inc.)

Last two are the devices I have plugged in.

  • The devices are not found in ls /media/

  • I have tried the solution using myunity as indicated in https://askubuntu.com/a/101415/82650. Turned on Show Devices, no luck.

  • I have also tried executing gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop volumes-visible true as elaborated in How do I get a USB drive shortcut on desktop?. Again no luck, the devices do not appear in desktop.
  • [EDIT] Looked in to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB. Checked my machine in dconf-editor. The org.gnome.desktop.media-handling key for automount has been properly set.
  • [EDIT] The devices are recognized both in Gparted and Disk Utility. All the device information shown are completely correct. The devices are present as /dev/sdd1 and /dev/sde1. But amazingly both Gparted and Disk Utility are showing that the devices are not mounted.
  • [EDIT] If I manually mount the devices using the command sudo mount device (/dev/sdd1 or /dev/sde1 <to some dir> this works fine. I can access the devices from all applications.

So, the problem boils down to, the devices are not being auto mounted.

I am using Ubuntu 12.04 (home machine). This is where the problem occurs. The devices work fine (automount) in my office machine, Ubuntu 13.04.

[EDIT 2]: After installation of autofs and automount and a reboot of the machine, the devices are being automounted again.

Still, I would like to know,

  1. Why do I have to install these? How did they get uninstalled?
  2. How did the devices work fine so far?
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