On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 14:28 +1100, David P wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 3:13 AM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > "FAT: Unrecognized mount option "usefree" or missing value" > > Your USB device is fine, which is why you can mount it manually. The > behaviour of GNOME's mounter seems to have changed in 7.10, so it > tries to add "usefree" as a mount option. All you need to do is go > into gconf-editor, navigate to > /system/storage/default_options/vfat/mount_options , and remove > "usefree" from the list. Then hopefully everything should be fine. > > (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-mount/+bug/151025 > for the full thread)
Thankyou to everyone (David, Heracles, The Reverend) for replying. Heracles, I first tried your suggestion of creating a test user and logging in - I'll file it away in my toolbox. I got the same error under the test user - interesting. The above suggestion worked (going into gconf-editor, etc). The thread was interesting - I too am having problems with the 7.10 kernel and have gone back to the 7.04 kernel. Thanks for the link - I now know to look in Launchpad first :-) Simon, out of interest, it's the same iAudio device as yours - invaluable for listening to podcasts on 12 hour Mexican bus rides :-) -- Sonia Hamilton http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com mobile in Mexico: +52-664-165-6914 (sms's preferred) celular en México: +52-664-165-6914 (prefiero mensajes cortos) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
