No USB (not at all)

[lol.2.dol]

Hi,
I've just made a fresh install of Debian Squeeze and I installed LXDE with the meta-package.
I have an issue with PCManFM, it won't show my USB/MMC devices...Any of them, no icons, nothing.

I don't how to get a debug output of GVFS or PCManFM.

Thank you for your help

[apox101]

In opposite to e.g. KDE, USB devices are not necessarily mounted automatically in LXDE. This can be fixed, however. Plug in your USB device, execute both the commands mount and dmesg on your console. Post the last 20 lines of the dmesg-output here, and the output of mount in its entirety.

[lol.2.dol]

But why does it work with Thunar File Manager? Is it because PCManFM uses GVFS?

Anyway this is the dmesg output :

1616.636186] usb 1-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 1620.069362] usb 1-5: New USB device found, idVendor=0dc4, idProduct=020a
[ 1620.069373] usb 1-5: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1
[ 1620.069382] usb 1-5: Product: MiniPro USB3.0
[ 1620.069389] usb 1-5: Manufacturer: Oyen Digital
[ 1620.069396] usb 1-5: SerialNumber:
[ 1620.069647] usb 1-5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[ 1620.072839] scsi3 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[ 1620.080050] usb-storage: device found at 6
[ 1620.080058] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[ 1625.082407] usb-storage: device scan complete
[ 1625.084192] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access ST950042 0ASG 0002 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 1625.086836] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[ 1625.088817] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 976773168 512-byte logical blocks: (500 GB/465 GiB)
[ 1625.089668] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 1625.089680] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
[ 1625.089687] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1625.091143] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1625.091155] sdb: sdb1
[ 1627.710727] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 1627.710741] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk

and the mount one

/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
tmpfs on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=620)
/dev/sda2 on /home type ext4 (rw)

Another question : The PCManFM package recommends the packages GVFS-fuse & GVFS-backends.
What's the difference between them? The backends one is only for network filesystem isn't it?
Does I need them for USB & MMC mount?

[apox101]

create a new folder in an arbitrary place. Execute the following command on the console as root:

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mount /dev/sdb /<path to the new folder>/

With this command, we try to mount the USB device manually. The content of your USB device will then be accessible in the newly created folder. If this succeeds, we can try automating the mounting.