el_ms2000 wrote:

I m a new user of E-PC and Linux
I have a USB thumbdrive and a MMC card
When i plug these storage into my E-PC, a message pops out:

"You do not have enough permissions to read /home/user/MMC-SD"

I read a thread, and created a "super file manager" under the directory "/root". However, I can't find the devices under this director "/root". Anyone can give me a hint or explain why?

That's odd, are you with the original Easy Desktop ?

Something that worked for me when i was having a similar problem

1. open a terminal with CONTROL+ALT+T
2. type
sudo XandrosFileManager
3. make sure your usb key is DETACHED and SD card is REMOVED
4. delete the MMC-SD folder in /home/user/ (if it still shows)
5. try inserting the USB key or SD card
6. try accessing it
7. when removing either device make sure you remove it safely using the icons by the clock

if you can see it after that but still have problems, you'll probably have to read up on changing the automount options mentioned in other threads regarding this issue.

Fried wrote:

I encountered the same problem after using several USB memory devices. What I found was that my USB memory devices attempted to mount in "/media" as "/media/MMC-SD", but the "/media" directory itself was missing for some reason. I fixed my problem by going to by the following in terminal (with media removed):

sudo -1
mkdir /media

Good luck!

Thanks for your advice.
But i tried to make the directory, it doesn't work!

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Last edited by el_ms2000 (2007-12-08 4:58:55 am)

RogueStar wrote:

i know its silly, but it looks like you missed a space there with the "mkdir /media" command

mkdir: cannot create directory '/media': Permission denied

is something what i m getting

Fried wrote:

sorry made a typo there... "sudo -i" instead of "sudo -1".

sudo -i
mkdir /media

it works, it works! ha-li-lu-ya. Thanks god.
Thanks for all your help.

Thanks, Fried!  It worked for me as well.  This is the second time I have encountered this problem.  In both cases I did not actually remove the SD card but touched it slightly, really just pointing it out to someone.  Last time I did a BIOS update through Add/Remove Software, and that fixed it.  Today someone else actually touched the card while looking at my new toy.  Glad to have this easy fix for the next time!

gallen1119 wrote:

Fried wrote:

I encountered the same problem after using several USB memory devices. What I found was that my USB memory devices attempted to mount in "/media" as "/media/MMC-SD", but the "/media" directory itself was missing for some reason. I fixed my problem by going to by the following in terminal (with media removed):

sudo -i
mkdir /media

Good luck!

It worked!  It worked!

I had the same problem.

Thanks Fried

Greg

Can someone put this in the wiki?

el_ms2000 wrote:

I m a new user of E-PC and Linux
I have a USB thumbdrive and a MMC card
When i plug these storage into my E-PC, a message pops out:

"You do not have enough permissions to read /home/user/MMC-SD"

I read a thread, and created a "super file manager" under the directory "/root". However, I can't find the devices under this director "/root". Anyone can give me a hint or explain why?

can never simulate this, plugging all the SD, SDHC, and USB thumb and HD, my cards are nomal cards readable by window, and I am on Easy Desktop. Kind of Odd.

You guys rock.  This worked instantly for a total eee-innocent like me.  Thanks a lot.

Did a search on "permissions" and found this thread ... worked for me too :-)