On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 08:30:18PM -0400, Matt Price wrote
In what appears to be a recent and spontaneous change, teh Ubuntu box I use to run our PVR has stopped mounting USB keys rw. THis is on Ubuntu -- when Ifirst noticed the problem I was still running 13.10, but am now updated to 14.10.
WHen I plug in a key, it will sometimes (but not always!) appear to mount as usul to /media/matt/something , opening up a nautilus window. but any attempt to write to the disk will fail due to lack of write permission.
Attempts to remount also fail:
~$ sudo mount -o rw,remount /media/matt/Linux\ Mint\ 17\ Xfce\ 32-bit/ mount: cannot remount /dev/sdb1 read-write, is write-protected
[...deletia...]
this happens with all usb keys, all of which I am able to mount on my laptop, which runs arch linux.
Any htoughts on how to proceed?
See if the instructions at... http://askubuntu.com/questions/247475/automounted-usb-devices-are-read-only fix your problem. -- Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>