Haven't seen too many new reports of the symptom. Perhaps this was fixed in later upgrades. The workaround; removing usbmount using Synaptic, seems to work when it does occur.
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 7:19 AM, igor <[email protected]> wrote: > Any news on this bug? Any fix coming soon? > > [582809.422695] FAT: Filesystem error (dev sdb3) > [582809.422704] invalid access to FAT (entry 0xe32519bc) > [582809.422710] File system has been set read-only > > Another fat drive that was working fine previously. > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber > of the bug. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573981 > > Title: > Ubuntu 10.04 - VFAT usb drives mount with root access only > > Status in Ubuntu: > Confirmed > > Bug description: > On a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04 Desktop 32 bit, not an upgrade, all > USB VFAT drives I've tried mount with root access only which means I > can not create or edit files or folders on these drives. The > workaround I found was to use the Disk Utility to unmount and then > mount the drives. This changed permissions on the drives to my login. > However every time the system is rebooted the USB VFAT drives mount > with root permissions only and the same procedure with Disk Utility > has to be repeated for all the VFAT usb drives, same as before. The > problem does not occur on the same drives, on the same system with > ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32 bit. The drives mount with permissions for me > every time with Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop 32 bit. > > Examining fstab I noticed there is a line in it in Ubuntu 9.10 that is > not present in Ubuntu 10.04 with respect to mounting usb drives. That > line is: > > none /proc/bus/usb usbfs auto,devmode=0666 0 0 > > Placed that line in fstab in the 10.04 load and found the system would > not boot without bypassing that line. The choice was to skip > processing that line or manually attempt to force it. > > Anyone installing a VFAT usb drive who encounters this symtom will not > be able to copy files to the drive, nor edit existing files or folders > at all without using the Disk Utility workaround I discovered. > > Have no idea what packages are involved in this. It's a problem > mounting VFAT usb drives for sure. Haven't tried NTFS or EXT type usb > file systems. > > Simply pulling out the drive connector and re-installing it does not > fix the problem. Drive Utility must be used. > > To unsubscribe from this bug, go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/573981/+subscribe > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/573981 Title: Ubuntu 10.04 - VFAT usb drives mount with root access only -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
