Recently ( ~2 weeks ago) upgraded to 4.13.2 from 4.8.5 on Precise.

Prior to this had no problems with mounting several other partitions on two hdds.

Since then, cannot mount local partitions or drives not in fstab using command line or Dolphin 'Places', and any attempt to populate 'Places' with any partition which does have an entry in fstab doesn't survive a reboot; then 'Places' shows only the default items 'Home', 'Network', 'Root', and 'Trash'.

Partition Manager will not mount any of these non-fstab partitions (command greyed out), though it shows them all.

Perhaps this is the new default behaviour, but since I can't find any complaints about it via Google, I suspect there is something awry. Nothing seems wrong with any of the configuration files that I've looked at--e.g. PAM files new at the date of upgrade appear identical to those prior.

Can anyone suggest an approach short of reinstallation (which of course may be necessary) to remedy this problem?

Thank you very much for your time and effort!

Joe

EDIT: I should have mentioned that this is as root. Acts as if sudo hadn't been used, but on earlier version (4.8.5), drives showed in 'Places' as soon as Dolphin opened.

Is "udisks" or "udisks2" running on your system?

Sorry to be so long responding--stopped regularly checking after 1st week!

I believe that it is udisks2--the package is 1.0.4-5ubuntu2.2, while the alternative lacks the last '.2', and I can't find any explicit identification--seems like all their stuff is lean on documentation--but it was installed March of this year. I seem to recall that I had hopes of it fixing some other irritating thing, but I can't recall what that was, now.

Thanks for your response!

Joe

Edit: I checked, and it is, apparently, udisks, not udisks2. I can't guess from your question if that provides a possible answer or not. I will wait for a while to see if you're still monitoring this post, but if not, I can add the ppa which makes the udisks2 available to Precise and see what happens.

Again, thanks for your time!
J

Sorry for the delay in responding here...
If you connect a flash drive or similar device, are you able to mount it without problems?

Also, can you post the output of the following command?

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