[caleb storms]

I have a fresh install of Bodhi on an old Dell laptop, everything works like a charm, but when i plug in my external usb mybook drive it mounts it, but if I try to play music on that drive or explore it a couple folders deep it suddenly unmounts. I thought this may be a hardware issue so plugged it into a Ubuntu box and worked fine. Any suggestions?

Caleb

[Jeff]

What program are you using to try and play music? What file browser are you using (the default?).

Welcome to the forums,
~Jeff

[caleb storms]

Hey Jeff,

I was using default browser so pcmanfm and tried both rythmbox and audacious.

Thanks

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What program are you using to try and play music? What file browser are you using (the default?).

Welcome to the forums,
~Jeff
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[caleb storms]

after a fresh install and update, running deadbeef, seems to be ok, i think it was an old fashion usb issue. Thanks

[caleb storms]

Ok well today it seems to be back giving me grief. If I mount the usb drive in under places it will mount then unmount. Until it finely wont show up in places. after un-plugging it and re-plugging it, it shows up again. However still will not stay mounted.

It seems so random. Any thoughts.

Caleb

[Jeff]

What happens when you mount it via the pcmanfm file browser instead of the place gadget?

~Jeff

[Rohit]

Do you face same issue with other pen drives on same machine ?

[caleb storms]

Jeff, I get the same results with pcmanfm and also installed dolphin and mounted it using that with same results.

Rohit, it seems to work ok with pen drive, but I don't use it for large files like music, not sure if thats a factor.

also seems to work after unplugging it sometimes. I recall having a similar issue with HAL years ago and it had to do with the order that HAL was loaded on boot. not sure if this is a similar thing.

Thanks

caleb

[Rohit]

Pls check your drive for virus, disk error.

Also check you have proper space for temporary files in / filesystem..

[caleb storms]

Rohit, Virus is unlikely this drive has never touched a windows box, been connected to linux boxes its whole life, / filesystem is fine as is swap, barely used. It is a mounting issue for sure.

Caleb

[Rohit]

few times back I got a windows virus in my pendrive while transferring a data from another linux system & Linux system kept rejecting it.

If it is ntfs/fat32 partition, try to repair on windows7.

I had downloaded a movie from net, ...on playing it, same problem occured.

[caleb storms]

I'll have to find a windows box, it works fine on Ubuntu and Arch linux both, its just Bodhi that I have this issue, and if I unplug it a couple of times it works just fine. So i'm thinking its not the drive.

Caleb

[spainach]

caleb storms, on 08 June 2012 - 07:23 PM, said:

I'll have to find a windows box, it works fine on Ubuntu and Arch linux both, its just Bodhi that I have this issue, and if I unplug it a couple of times it works just fine. So i'm thinking its not the drive.

Caleb

I'm supposing you have all these systems in one computer, so it couldn't be that there's a misfit of usb. hm...try installing palimpsest disk utility and see if that detects it. It's also possible that there are certain errors in E17. I've encountered a similar problem before which was fixed by using openbox instead of E17, although I'm guessing it's is more of a pcmanfm issue rather than e17 (I think I read somewhere about udisks though I can't seem to find the source now).

Could this be related?

[caleb storms]

Spainach

I had ubuntu on this machine and arch at one time. I'm beginning to suspect the Usb itself. I think it may be giving out. It is an old machine after all. It just seems so random. I installed Debian just to check, and it worked great for several hours then unmounted and began to be flake out again. So seems more of a hardware issue at this point.

Thanks for all the help

Caleb