This has happened before and I’m just curious as to why and whether I can do something besides restart. Basically it’s this:
I click the Updater applet and choose to install the new updates (one is a kernel security update)
After update is installed, at some point I plug a device into USB
I get the error: "An error occurred while accessing ‘Device_Name’, the system responded: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.UnknownFilesystemType: Unknown file system ‘vfat’
The device normally works and if I restart it should fix it, but my question is why is that necessary?
No, my question is why a kernel security update makes a USB stick unusable without rebooting first. What does one have to do with the other? The only thing that appears to be affected is USB mounting. I can still use my computer without a reboot after installing kernel updates, so why can’t I pop in a USB stick?
A kernel update replaces other things with new versions that are tied to the new kernel.
The USB mount is probably using something that is tied to the kernel, but you are still running the old kernel while it thinks you are running the new kernel.
Roughly speaking, after a kernel update your system is in a somewhat inconsistent state until you have rebooted.
hi,
I have the same problem. After the update and numerous reboots it still doesn’t allow access to my USB harddrive. MY error message reads;
“org.freedesktop.UDisks.Error.Failed: Requested filesystem type is neither well-known nor in /proc/filesystems nor in /etc/filesystems”.
What else can be done?
Sorry I didn’t read the first poster question properly.
For me it was ntfs returning the error for first poster it was vfat.
Poster could check the filesystem config file:
Mine looks like this:
Once you know what to do almost every problem is easily solved. But the fact that within 24 hours at least three people came here because that “easy” solution wasn’t seen by them immediatly, shows it is not that easy. It simply shouldn’t have happened imho (but bugs do occur of course). And as soon as this is solved upstream we may spare many thousands of users searching here and elsewhere for this “easy” (but not obvious to most) solution.
It might even be that that “easy solution” is not a solution at all, but only a by-pass.
And when it is the ultimate solution and upstream does not know, on the next installtion/update of /etc/filesystems, it will be overwritten with what upstream thinks is te correct file.
On 04/30/2011 12:36 PM, hcvv wrote:
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> It might even be that that “easy solution” is not a solution at all,
> but only a by-pass.
we should probably put a “software switch” into openSUSE and when folks
find a bug but refuse to log it, we just turn off their openSUSE until
they do…
its like some people think that free and open source software has no
cost, and they are not willing to ‘pay’ the time it takes to log a bug…
[QUOTE=DenverD;2332656]On 04/30/2011 12:36 PM, hcvv wrote:
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> It might even be that that “easy solution” is not a solution at all,
> but only a by-pass.
we should probably put a “software switch” into openSUSE and when folks
find a bug but refuse to log it, we just turn off their openSUSE until
they do…
its like some people think that free and open source software has no
cost, and they are not willing to ‘pay’ the time it takes to log a bug…
so, maybe we could suspend their license…
how does that sound??
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And the day we start requiring people to use our software in the way we want them to, and only that way, is the day you become Apple. Yuck.available at all
We have become so familiar with graphic emoticons that the text form recognition is a lost art, along with commandline/text mode chats (… woolgathering … more like dusting …)
lol!
On 06/06/2011 07:36 PM, SeanMc98 wrote:
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> We have become so familiar with graphic emoticons that the text form
> recognition is a lost art
correct! lots of folks joining the net in the last decade have little
idea i can say, “so, blah blah blah lets fight ;-)” and it does not mean
‘lets fight’.
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No, the problem isn’t the emoticon staying in text format, because I saw the wink, it’s that without tone of voice, that wink can be a bit ambiguous. I read it as you believing that people who “think that free and open source software has no
cost, and they are not willing to ‘pay’ the time it takes to log a bug,” are wrong/bad, but then your “solution” was an extreme and thus a joke. But while I recognized the solution as a joke, I read your judgement of such users as serious. And I strongly disagree with that judgement.
On 06/07/2011 07:36 PM, 6tr6tr wrote:
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> I strongly disagree with that judgement.
you misread my intended meaning, completely…
actually, i thought the idea of a software switch to disable an
installed openSUSE is SO Microsoft/Apple like that i didn’t think anyone
would take the idea seriously…sorry you did.
Fremmedsprog er ikke nemt!
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