Well, I didnt really want to do a reinstall but with the usb and dvd
problem, I couldnt see any other way. I tried everything else, and it
just didnt work. This problem seems to be an ongoing thing, does anybody
know why it hasnt been fixed?
On 07/02/11 18:54, gazz wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 18:28 +0000, John MM wrote:
Hi, I have an Acer Aspire One, and I am running Ubuntu 10.10. Since
upgrading to this version, I am getting the same problem, I cant use
USB sticks and I cant plug in my external dvd rewriter. It gives an
error 'unable to mount usb stick, not authorised'. It seems to be a
Ubuntu problem, and so far I havent been able to find a fix for it. I
want to do a fresh install, but I cant because it wont accept both.
This bug seems to have been around for a while, I vaguely remember
encountering it a few versions ago - there's a discussion of it here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/518533 - I
could still mount them manually on the commandline, I think it's
Nautilus causing the problem. Some people suggest the only way to fix
it is a clean re-install. It sounds like your system might need
reinstalling anyway.
If you're reinstalling from USB, you only need the BIOS to recognise
the stick, not Ubuntu, so this shouldn't be a problem if you can get
someone to create an installation stick for you or burn a CD for your
external USB CD drive? I'd probably put 10.04 on it as 10.10 doesn't
have long to run.
Paula
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