Re: [gentoo-user] Something changed in udev (again)?

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 04 November 2008 08:50:18 Mick wrote:
> Can't mount my camera.  This is what Konqueror comes up with:

Ahem. You have a camera with an ext3 filesystem on it?

What kind of super camera do you have that understands ext3? Those things 
almost universally have vfat.

I'd say you have a b0rked fstab. Udev has nothing to do with it as udev does 
not understand filesystems either - mount undertsands filesystems.


> =============================================================
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda1,
> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
> dmesg | tail or so
> =============================================================
>
> syslog shows this:
> =============================================================
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb 2-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and
> addr
> ess 2
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb 2-1: New USB device found, idVendor=04cb,
> idProduct=01
> 71
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb-storage: device found at 2
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before
> scanning
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb 2-1: New USB device strings: Mfr=0, Product=2,
> SerialNumber=3
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb 2-1: Product: USB Mass Storage
> Nov  4 06:43:31 lappy usb 2-1: SerialNumber: Y-764^^^^^040913XFPX0006011606
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access     FUJIFILM
> USB-DRIVEUNIT 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1023120 512-byte hardware sectors
> (524 MB)
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 1023120 512-byte hardware sectors
> (524 MB)
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 07 00 00 00
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Assuming drive cache: write through
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sda: sda1
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI removable disk
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
> Nov  4 06:43:36 lappy usb-storage: device scan complete
> Nov  4 06:44:14 lappy VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
> Nov  4 06:44:14 lappy VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
> Nov  4 06:44:29 lappy VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
> Nov  4 06:44:29 lappy VFS: Can't find ext3 filesystem on dev sda1.
> =============================================================
>
> From what I recall the above messages about ext3 were not stopping me
> mounting it in the past as a plain user, either with pmount or vanilla
> mount commands. No problem mounting it as root.  Any quick ideas?



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com