Bug still present on 20.04
biep@blok:/media/biep$ ls -la
totaal 136
drwxrwxrwx 3 biep biep 4096 feb 6 12:10 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 apr 27 2020 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 biep biep 131072 feb 6 12:10 ventoy
biep@blok:/media/biep$ chmod a+w ventoy
biep@blok:/media/biep$ ls -l
I know I'm not running the latest LTS, but 16.04, yet I tried Etienne's
advice (because it seems to make perfect sense), but fsck wasn't allowed
to fix a FAT-mismatch:
sudo fsck.vfat /dev/sdf1
fsck.fat 3.0.28 (2015-05-16)
FATs differ but appear to be intact. Use which FAT ?
1) Use
Ubuntu 19.04 (disco) will switch to read-only when a automatically mounted VFAT
filesystem with errors is detected.
You have to umount the filesystem and then run "sudo fsck.vfat /dev/sd"
multiple times, until fsck.vfat do no more ask to correct the new errors
detected in the filesystem.
@h23 if you are seeing the same behaviour in the terminal the Nautilus is
not the problem. Your USB is write protected or your computer is picking it
up like that for some reason.
You can insert the USB Stick and then run:
dmesg | tail
To see the system log. There you can see if the write
I see that many people say that killall nautilus works for them but it
doesn't change anything for me. Perhaps someone could spell out the
exact sequence of actions so that I can make sure that I am the problem?
What I am doing right now is
insert USB
try to paste something into it using nautilus
What error exactly did you see after that update?
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After a recent update to my Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, this error pops in. The
solution was to use the similar "killall nautilus" and it fixes it.
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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I can confirm this is happening on Xubuntu 18.10 with Thunar as the file
manager.
The workaround 'killall Thunar' after inserting the USB drive does work however!
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Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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I can confirm this is happening on archlinux with gnome DE
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When fdisk shows type is Empty, this happens in U16.04;
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.27.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdf: 7.2 GiB, 7759462400 bytes, 15155200 sectors
Units:
I managed to fix my problem by reformating the USB drive. Now I have
proper read write delete permissions for my usename.
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Before I was able to copy and remove files from USB fat32 drive with the
terminal even though nemo might not be working but now cannot do it even with
terminal. Cannot do it with command rm -r foldername or sudo rm -r foldername
The problem has got worse at least in my case using linux mint
Just experienced this problem with a Seagate Expansion Drive - In
Nautilus ownership is 'me' and permission is 'create and delete files'
but when trying to write to the file the popup appears saying read-only.
I tried the killall Nautilus and access is restored.
The system is ubuntu 16.04 LTS;
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Importance: Medium => Unknown
** Changed in: nautilus
Status: Confirmed => Unknown
** Changed in: nautilus
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The same problem can happen in Thunar. For some cases Nautilus itself
needs an additional patch, but the underlying problem was identified and
fixed in glib. Unfortunately the fixed version is not available in
Ubuntu yet. See the Thunar bug for more details, and thanks go to Nelson
Benitez for
This has been happening to me for years, and I always forget about it.
I think maybe writing this comment will help me remember the next time.
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On Latest 17.04, killall nautilus and restarting nautilus doesn't help.
Maybe I am not doing the right thing in detail.
So for a couple of years now, every time I present something at a
conference, I panic because I'm not going to be able to write my PDF
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Same problem for "Caja" on ubuntu 17.10 Mate
restart of Caja solve the problem.
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Still present in 17.10
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Status in Nautilus:
Confirmed
Status
This is almost certainly an upstream bug since I've encountered it in
Fedora as well, including Fedora 25.
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I had upgraded from Ubuntu Gnome 14.04 to 16.04. All of a sudden this
issue cropped up! None of my usb sticks would work properly. However,
after following the comments here and running killall nautilus, then
restarting it solved the problem.
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Just occurred today:
16.04.2 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
4.8.0-54-generic
Same Thumbdrive is accessible and writeable:
14.04.05 Trusty Tahr
4.4.0-79-generic
Unable to mount other USB Drives:
Example:"Device /dev/sdc1 is already mounted at `/media/ubuntu/Debian
8.8.0 amd64 1'"
Here is the output of
I'm on 17.04 fully updated as at 30/5/2017. This is still happening. As
per everything the OP had in 2012, I can confirm the same at this end.
No remounting or editing of permissions changed nautilus' permissions
for me except for:
* Closing nautilus,
* Removing ~/.config/nautilus, *1
*
Same for me
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Status in Nautilus:
Confirmed
Status in nautilus
P.S. “killall nautilus” and restarting it resolved the issue.
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Wow, it seems to be still present. Just experienced it on 16.10. This is
weird, because this bug was driving me nuts on 15.10, and now this was
first occurrence since I upgraded from 15.10 to 16.10, which was half a
year ago.
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Had this problem happen to me on 16.04.2. killall nautilus worked for
me, and doesn't come back across multiple unplugs and restarts of
nautilus.
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I had this problem with Ubuntu 15.04. It was solved by:
mv ~/.config/nautilus ~/.config/nautilus-bak
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I met this problem today, and after kill nautilus and remount problem
solved, not sure how to reproduce this again.
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I observe a variant of this bug in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 64-bit
(4.4.0-71-generic #92-Ubuntu): In Nautilus 3.14.3, an auto-mounted
partition on a local drive is read-only (no issues before, nothing
changed with the system (hardware) configuration). In addition, if I
open files with apps (gedit, ...)
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** Tags added: xenial yakkety
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Status in Nautilus:
Confirmed
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: nemo (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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I had the exact same problem as described but I am using Arch Linux. I made a
simple uninstall with pacman -Rcsn. I know this isn't the same command for
ubuntu but just use apt-get autoremove and make sure to add the option that
also removes all configuration files. Some times some files are
I confirm this bug also affects Nemo on Ubuntu 16.04 (at least).
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16.10 ... unbelievable :/
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Very nasty bug for a new comer, we really need to find a solution...
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I've the same issue and "killall nautilus" also fix the problem for me.
What kind of debug information can we provide to help fixing this issue?
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*correction* aged 16.04 (sorry)
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Status in Nautilus:
Just had this on my ages 16.10 with even more aged USB's that have
worked fine over the ages :-/. Like others I can copy using terminal
but nautilus gives RO error message. "killall nautilus" seemed to clear
the problem for me...
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Same here. Sorry I've got to say i'm so disapointed this bug has been
reported since 2012 and it's like nobody cares... feels great preparing
to use Linux at work and switching family to Linux and cant even write
on a thumbdrive because of a 4+ years old bug... maybe those windows/mac
guys are
It occurred for me yesterday for the first time ever. I have Dell XPS
netbook running 64bit 16.04, upgraded from 14.04. Been using Ubuntu for
many many years on many machines, never seen this before.
Symptoms: With one of my thumb-drives, I could copy/move files in
terminal without any problems,
Just encountered this in Ubuntu 16.10. Painful bug.
$ nautilus --version
GNOME nautilus 3.20.3
$ cat /etc/*-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=yakkety
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.10"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.10 (Yakkety Yak)"
ID=ubuntu
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Hardware: LEnovo Yoga 12
--- OS :
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
Release:16.04
Codename: xenial
- USB : SanDisk 16gb
--- Bus 002 Device 014: ID 0781:5571 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer
S! S! S!
With Ubuntu 16.04LTS it is here again! :)
WTF!?
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Just experienced this bug in Ubuntu Yakkety 16.10 64-bit, Unity desktop,
"Files" utility version 3.20.3.
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This bug-thread has been published in mid 2012, nowadays we're one leg in 2017.
Any news? Any road map when Nautilus user can copy the data from/to USB-drive
without any workarounds?
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Status: Incomplete => Confirmed
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I already had the same problem with 12.04 and today with 16.04.
Write accessd denied from Nautilus but possible using other methods as already
described above.
What works for rme:
Remove the directory ~/.config/nautilus (or rename to .bak), kill nautilus and
after a restart, write access on
Same issue here but comes and goes. Yesterday I could not write any of
my usb sticks. The funny thing is that I was able to write in them
through command line.
Today the issue is gone. I've experienced this problem about 3 or 4
times in 3 months time.
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Same issue here, had it for a long time. Can also confirm that "killall
nautilus" solves it. Still an issue on Ubuntu 16.10.
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Got this for the first time after installing 16.10. I had to copy
everything from a terminal.
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I had this problem with Ubuntu 16.04.1. So annoying!
killall nautilus solves the problem
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Guys, there are 117 users affected by this launchpad bug, but only 7
logged in upstream and CC themselves to the upstream bug. Please login
to the upstream bug at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703179
and CC yourselves. It might help to add importance to the issue.
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I can confirm #69, using "killall nautilus" from terminal helps
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I have this problem on 16.04 and a normal SATA disk. "killall nautilus"
helped.
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dmesg output, last two lines are colored red:
[267152.527685] usb 2-1.7: New USB device found, idVendor=0951, idProduct=1662
[267152.527693] usb 2-1.7: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2,
SerialNumber=3
[267152.527698] usb 2-1.7: Product: DataTraveler 109
[267152.527701] usb 2-1.7:
Also affects me on Ubuntu 16.04 64 bit, latest Nautilus (package version
1:3.18.4.is.3.14.3-0ubuntu4). Can write using terminal.
I started experiencing this bug only after mounting a live usb with Linux Mint
18, as if it where infected..
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Same for me, on Ubuntu 14.04. Try those steps.
1. get a pen drive having a read-only switch.
2. plug in pen drive in write mode
3. check you can write something.
4. Reboot
5. plug in pendrive having read-only switch on
6. check you cannot write
7. uplug normally, do not reboot pc
8. change
Have the same issue in Xenial. Copying from Terminal works fine.
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I confirm problem for Xenial. Reformatting the drive with different
Filesystems did not help. Issue comes up with differend usb keys. "gksu
nautilus" is a workaround for me.
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The problem exists in 16.04 as well. Why does this problem still exist?
It's been 4 years!
Here is a video demo of the problem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oACOGupxVmU
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Same problem in 14.04. I can copy files with cp, but Nautilus claims
that it's read only.
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Actually reformating the USB key from ext4 to ntfs worked...
/me banging head against the table: DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS! DEVELOPERS!
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Confirming on 15.10. No trick works for me.
FYI tried to reformat the USB drive a couple of times using gparted and I get
there:
"Partition(s) 1 on /dev/sdb have been written, but we have been unable to
inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a
result, the old
Same on 15.10. The Robin Winslow's trick worked for me also (sudo
killall nautilus).
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Same problem in 14.04. Ejecting and `sudo killall nautilus` fixed it for
me.
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Has the same problem wie 12.04 #22 helps. Here the diff
diff nautilus.bad/ nautilus
diff nautilus.bad/desktop-metadata nautilus/desktop-metadata
3c3
< nautilus-icon-view-layout-timestamp=1449680128
---
> nautilus-icon-view-layout-timestamp=1449688294
Which is really strange. No idea why this fix
Nautilus in 15.10 is also affected by this issue.
i used a many versions of Ubuntu before and this problem never occurs.
Now it happen, after update to 15.10
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Status: Unknown = Confirmed
** Changed in: nautilus
Importance: Unknown = Medium
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Same / similar issue in Fedroa 22.
This might be the issue:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703179
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And it just got really interesting. After fighting this issue for hours,
I gave up and resolved to copying by terminal.
By force of habit, I accidently used nautilus once more to copy, after copying
a batch of files by terminal, and presto, it works.
Nautilus now copies files without
I just have that issue in 14.04 as well.
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Ubuntu 15.10 is in active development stage, please, try to solve the
issue and let the users use your OS.
For the moment, I see a half-year thread with the complaints, but there
is no official reference to the case.
Are there any plans to solve the bug?
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Affects me in Ubuntu 15.04. It's REALLY annoying.
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I have this issue on fedora 22.
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Status in nautilus package in
Just had the issue in Debian Jessie (Sid) with Gnome 3.16
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The problem is still there.
How is it possible after so many years?
It is a serious usability problem.
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For me it's actually not an «usability problem» but is a stop-bug, which
prevents the usage of Ubuntu at all.
The usage of USB-stick, flash-drive is daily task for me and I can't imagine
that each time I have to use it the OS will cause the problems and will prevent
the usage.
Please, fix it
I just installed Ubuntu 15.04 RTM and almost three years after this
ticket has been opened this problem still persists. It' very hard to use
the OS when it can't properly handle such important thing as the work
with USB-drives.
There is no such issue with Fedora 21, which is also based on
I just had this problem occur again, I am using 12.04 (still). I also
got it tp work correctly, here is what worked for me (YMMV). I am not
sure all these step are required, but the combination fixed my problem.
1- sudo chmod 755 /media (this was recommended with -R option, but I did not
want
In 14.10 this problem still exists.
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Status in nautilus package
I too have the nautilus read-only misbehavior on the very latest
12.04LTS (x86_64) system and have the following observations, including
a simple-enough workaround since running into this problem quite a while
back
I can cause the false read-only behavior on demand by first inserting a
I wonder is this related to traversing symlinks to the mount point?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=844713
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I also have the same problem on 14.04, however I'm using Nemo and not
nautilus.
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I appear to be having the same issue as SergeiS tonysonney under 14.04,
file system permissions are correct and cp works fine from the command line for
one of my USB hard drives, but drive consistently shows as 'Owner: root' in
Nautilus - even though mount options are identical to an
remounting per comment #20 (sudo mount -o remount,rw /media/mount
point) did not work with nautilus 3.10.1-0ubuntu9.3 on 14.04
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I have the same problem. Can create/delet file from terminal. But
operations from nautilus fails wit destination read only error. The
other interesting thing is the same usb drive used to work fine with
nautilus till before I made a bootable disk on the usb device using dd.
I tried coping the
Still a problem on 14.04 now. What's confusing is that the file system
is properly mounted, and I can copy a file onto the drive using cp in a
terminal, so it is a pure Nautilus issue.
Mount:
/dev/sdc1 on /media/sergei/16GB type vfat
I can confirm the observations of comment #20. On this basis, I'm
raising the importance because this seems to me like a major usability
issue.
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Importance: Undecided = High
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I did
sudo mount -o remount,rw /media/mount point
which works copying files in nautilus (until you pull out the usb stick
of course)
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Affects me - another temporary workaround is to load nautilus as root
from terminal which allows me to write to usb
This is really annoying please fix.
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I reboot system on recovery mode, and did some of the support programs.
Now it works
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021375
Title:
Nautilus says the USB stick is
I to have the same problem!
I have tried 2 diferent USB sticks nothing can be saved to them. Either by
drag drop or saving from a text editor (JuffEd Gedit) or even OpenOfice.
One of the USB sticks did let me moove a file when I firs got it but it stoped
after I plged it into my Android.
I
I have the read-only bug under a slightly different condition: Its not a
external USB-Stick but a remounted partition.
For security reasons I have an archive partition which is mounted read-
only at startup of the notebook. When I mount the partition afterwards
in readwrite-mode then nautilus
Using 13:10. This is super super annoying bug. Will drive far away any
windows user trying to use Ubuntu, for sure.
Please fix this soon.
I can copy files using Terminal as normal user. But with nautilus, it
giving me is read only error.
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Just happened to me all of a sudden (eg, have not observed this problem on
12.04 or 13.04 until today, but haven't used a USB stick for 2+ weeks). Unity
desktop; Files 3.6.3 (whatever that is) produces a popup stating that target is
read-only, which it isn't, of course. The config file
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