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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu USB flash drive/keyfob will not automount Post 302320082 by robgwin on Wednesday 27th of May 2009 03:03:49 AM
Old 05-27-2009
Solved by restarting HAL
I just had this same issue on Ubuntu 9.04. My USB thumb drive was automounting correctly all day, and I made sure to unmount (eject) before removing it every time, but for whatever reason, it suddenly stopped mounting when I plugged it in.

Thanks to the links provided by techlinux, I learned a bit about HAL, and running "ps aux | grep hal" turned up a line like this:

hald-addon-storage: no polling because /dev/sdc is locked via HAL

With the usb drive unplugged, I restarted HAL, and that fixed the problem, hooray. However, the command is slightly different than specified in the HAL wiki. /etc/rc.d/hal doesn't exist (in fact, /etc/rc.d doesn't exist). This is the command I used:

sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart

Now.. how do we figure out what causes the polling/locked problem in the first place?
 

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LEARN ABOUT NETBSD

mount_chfs

MOUNT_CHFS(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					     MOUNT_CHFS(8)

NAME

     mount_chfs -- mount a CHFS flash file system

SYNOPSIS

     mount_chfs

DESCRIPTION

     Mounts a flash file system from a flash(4) device.  CHFS file systems can be only mounted from flash devices.  For regular block devices like
     SSD drives or USB drives, please use a regular file system.  The file system will be created during the first mount.  CHFS stands for Chip
     File System.

EXAMPLES

	   mount_chfs /dev/flash0 /mnt

SEE ALSO

     flash(4), fstab(5), mount(8), flash(9)

HISTORY

     CHFS was originally called ChewieFS during development.  The name was changed to avoid legal issues and to have a more neutral name.

AUTHORS

     CHFS was developed at the Department of Software Engineering, University of Szeged, Hungary.

BUGS

     CHFS has a few known bugs as of 2011.  Writing the FS full can cause problems.  Truncating a file and growing it again can cause the new
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