I would try "sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb"

If it does not show any suitable filesystems, then that's the problem and not any file permissions.

On 7/9/21 3:02 PM, Eric Chadbourne wrote:
On my HP Envy laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, the Files application doesn't show USB or sdcards.

I can see USB in terminal in /dev.  However I can't see the sdcard.

    eric@dragonEnvy:/media/eric$ ls -la /dev/sd*
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  0 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  1 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda1
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  2 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda2
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8,  3 Jul  9 12:54 /dev/sda3
    brw-rw---- 1 root disk 8, 16 Jul  9 13:19 /dev/sdb  // the USB dongle

Is the sdcard card reader recognized?  I _think_ yes.

    sudo lspci -v -nn

    02:00.0 Unassigned class [ff00]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader [10ec:522a] (rev 01)         Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company RTS522A PCI Express Card Reader [103c:81ad]
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 125
        Memory at b1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00-00-00-01-00-4c-e0-00
        Capabilities: [150] Latency Tolerance Reporting
        Capabilities: [158] L1 PM Substates
        Kernel driver in use: rtsx_pci
        Kernel modules: rtsx_pci

I tried a rescan but no help.

    echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/bus/pci/rescan

Shouldn't the drives be shown in /media?

    eric@dragonEnvy:/media/eric$ ls -lah /media
    total 12K
    drwxr-xr-x   3 root root 4.0K Apr 25  2020 .
    drwxr-xr-x  24 root root 4.0K Apr  7  2020 ..
    drwxr-x---+  2 root root 4.0K Jun  8 16:28 eric

    eric@dragonEnvy:/media/eric$ ls -lah /media/eric
    total 8.0K
    drwxr-x---+ 2 root root 4.0K Jun  8 16:28 .
    drwxr-xr-x  3 root root 4.0K Apr 25  2020 ..

I see a little plus sign.  Maybe I changed something here a while back and forgot.  Maybe this is an acl or permission issue?  So now I'm thinking maybe just leave the USB and sdcard in and reboot.  Maybe root will set them up on initialization.  Didn't work.

Interesting errors on reboot in auth.log but after investigation I think it is cruft from pam that can be ignored.

    Jul  9 13:41:09 dragonEnvy gdm-password]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): Couldn't open /etc/securetty: No such file or directory     Jul  9 13:41:16 dragonEnvy gdm-password]: pam_unix(gdm-password:auth): Couldn't open /etc/securetty: No such file or directory     Jul  9 13:41:16 dragonEnvy gdm-password]: gkr-pam: unable to locate daemon control file     Jul  9 13:41:16 dragonEnvy gdm-password]: gkr-pam: stashed password to try later in open session

Let's check media directory permissions.

    eric@dragonEnvy:/media$ getfacl eric
    # file: eric
    # owner: root
    # group: root
    user::rwx
    user:eric:r-x
    group::---
    mask::r-x
    other::---

Oddly I can plug in a mouse or my iPad and everything works fine. I plug in an USB dongle or my little SandDisk card and nothing. What do you think?  Where else to look?

Thanks for any tips!

Eric C

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