This problem affects me on Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit, running nautilus 3.6.3 from default repositories. This is a fresh install with all available updates installed. All USB drives show "Error while copying to "[name of drive]." The destination is read-only."
Tested with three working USB sticks, all formatted FAT-32 via Gparted. Able to use touch, cp, mv, mkdir via terminal with no problems. Simply unable to create folders, drag files, or copy/paste files though nautilus. Here is the terminal output from running 'mount' with one of these USB drives plugged in, after receiving error message. Note, USB is last disk listed, /dev/sdh, mounted under /media/mike/SanDisk: mike@cobbler:~$ mount /dev/sda3 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) /dev/sdb2 on /home type ext4 (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/mike/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=mike) /dev/sdh1 on /media/mike/SanDisk type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1021375 Title: Nautilus says the USB stick is read only when it is not To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1021375/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
