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
