[SOLVED] Mageia 3, removeable drives won't mount

[ihowarth]

I upgraded from Mageia 2 (64-bit) to 3 a few days ago, and everything went astonishingly smoothly. Just working through the odd minor wrinkle, and i've hit one that i'm stuck on. (There are similar, solved, problems on the forum, but nothing that seems to help me.)

So, insert a USB stick, or an SD card into the PC's card reader. The device notifier picks it up as expected, and offers the usual selection of actions ("open with file manager" etc.), but when trying to execute the action of choice, the drive won't mount. The device notifier offers this additional information (e.g., kingston USB stick):

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Could not mount the following device:  KINGSTON
The requested operation has failed:  Error mounting /dev/sdg1 at /run/media/root/KINGSTON:  Command-line `mount -t "vfat" -o "uhelper=udisks2,nodev,nosuid,uid=0,gid=0,shortname=mixer"/dev/sdg1""/run/media/root/KINGSTON" exited with non-zero exit status 32: mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'

...which sort-of says how to fix the problem, confirmed by attempts to mount manually

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mount /dev/sdg1 /run/media/root/KINGSTON
mount: unknown filesystem type 'vfat'


But...where has my vfat gone, and (more importantly) how do i get it back?

(And indeed, vfat is missing from /proc/filesystem, but then so is ntfs, and my windoze partitions mount just fine as "fuseblk")

[tom_]

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tom@localhost Desktop]$ mount | grep KI
/dev/sdb1 on /run/media/tom/KINGSTON type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=10001,gid=10001,fmask=0022,dmask=0077,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
tom@localhost Desktop]$

it works for me... IIRC mount vfat depends by this package:

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$ rpm -qa | grep cifs
cifs-utils-6.0-1.mga3


do you have it?

[ihowarth]

Thanks, Tom...yes, cifs-utils installed

[ihowarth]

Ah...thinking back to what else i'd fiddled with today: I'd found that compiling an old fortran code with several c routines, i'd had to move /lib to force the linker to pick up the 64-bit versions of crt1.o (etc.).

Moving it back has fixed the mount issue. (Have to figure out properly what's going on with the linker now...)

[doktor5000]

Please mark the thread accordingly by editing the topic of the first post and prefix it by [SOLVED], thanks