allonewords comments were the thing that fixed this for me. suddenly after months of correct operation my external usb drive wouldn't mount.
it was after I'd been playing with a sata CDROM drive. Quick look in fstab revealed that the (now removed) cdrom was fouling up the mount location for the external usb hard drive: viz: /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0 commenting that out got me back to loving linux (and it's superb helpful community) as usual! THANKS -- [intrepid] Unable to mount USB memory devices https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/251781 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
