Media/USB devices detection/mounting issue

[zambrotta19]

I have had this problem for a little while now and have read a few articles and threads but as of yet have not got very far. I thought it would be best to get guidance for my problem from the start. Having followed a tutorial I got into my preferences and it says that auto-mounting is still enabled.

Basically, my laptop no longer detects or mounts media devices. This goes for anything that I place into the laptop. Taking my iPod as an example when I plug it into the usb port it lights up as though it has been found and will charge. However it never shows the do not remove symbol and after a while turns as it is not being charged.

I read through this, https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Mount/USB

I created the mount point but I do not know the code for my devices to mount and I am not entirely sure what I am looking at.

Here are the results of 'sudo fdisk -1:

fdisk: invalid option -- '1'

Usage: fdisk [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK Change partition table
fdisk -l [-b SSZ] [-u] DISK List partition table(s)
fdisk -s PARTITION Give partition size(s) in blocks
fdisk -v Give fdisk version
Here DISK is something like /dev/hdb or /dev/sda
and PARTITION is something like /dev/hda7
-u: give Start and End in sector (instead of cylinder) units
-b 2048: (for certain MO disks) use 2048-byte sectors
ollie@ollie-laptop:~$

I am very much a beginner when it comes to this area of operation and any help would be greatly appreciated.

Seasons Greetings,

Ollie

[devils casper]

Here are the results of 'sudo fdisk -1:

Its small L instead of one.

sudo fdisk -l

Plug-in iPod and execute this in Terminal :

tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages

Post output here. Post the output of df -h command too.

[zambrotta19]

thanks so much for the quick reply. Here is the result with the ipod connected:

ollie@ollie-laptop:~$ tail -s 3 -f /var/log/messages
Dec 24 12:13:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8319.690448] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=382 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=362
Dec 24 12:13:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8319.699793] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=327 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=307
Dec 24 12:14:16 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8365.277089] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 1(1) BSS returned, data->length = 118
Dec 24 12:14:24 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8374.244595] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=129 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=109
Dec 24 12:14:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8379.701264] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=318 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=298
Dec 24 12:14:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8379.703106] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=370 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=350
Dec 24 12:14:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8379.710989] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=384 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=364
Dec 24 12:14:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8379.712806] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=382 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=362
Dec 24 12:14:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8379.714436] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=327 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=307
Dec 24 12:15:24 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8434.246397] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=129 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=109
Dec 24 12:15:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8439.714971] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=318 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=298
Dec 24 12:15:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8439.719128] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=370 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=350
Dec 24 12:15:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8439.721110] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=384 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=364
Dec 24 12:15:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8439.723013] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=382 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=362
Dec 24 12:15:30 ollie-laptop kernel: [ 8439.724911] Inbound IN=ra0 OUT= MAC= SRC=192.168.0.2 DST=239.255.255.250 LEN=327 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=4 ID=0 DF PROTO=UDP SPT=44360 DPT=1900 LEN=307

[zambrotta19]

Here is the output of the df -h

ollie@ollie-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 144G 31G 106G 23% /
udev 497M 260K 496M 1% /dev
none 497M 1.1M 496M 1% /dev/shm
none 497M 108K 497M 1% /var/run
none 497M 0 497M 0% /var/lock
none 497M 0 497M 0% /lib/init/rw