I think I may have screwed up something - cant mount drive

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    I noticed this happened after I had been foling around with the user account.

    Basically I just changed the user@localhost to myownname@locahost.

    Now it seems I cannot mount external hard drives or USB drives. Always get the failed to mount message.
     
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    error message : Cannot read from /media/.hal-mtab.
     
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    this was the command I used to change the user name:

    usermod -l login-name old-name
     
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    Hi guys, I solved this by removing the /media/ folder and creating a NEW empty one.

    USB works now!
     
    protoculture, May 5, 2009
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