Re: Unable to mount external USB devices -- Wheezy KDE

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 11:59:42 -0500, ntrfug wrote:

> For years I have been able to use external hard drives and thumb drives
> on my systems, but not since I installed Wheezy.
> 
> I get the following on inserting a SanDisk thumb drive:
> 
> "The requested operation has failed.: Error mounting: mount exited with
> exit code 1: helper failed with: Unprivileged user can not mount NTFS
> block devices using the external FUSE library. Either mount the volume
> as root, or rebuild NTFS-3G with integrated FUSE support and make it
> setuid root. Please see more information at
> http://tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged";

(...)

Bug?

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=631504

> The problem is not limited to devices with NTFS file systems; I can't
> mount ext2 or ReiserFS devices either.

Mmm, that sounds even weirder :-)

Can you post the error message you get when mounting a device with ext2 
or reiserfs format?

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón