Ubuntu 11.04 "The destination is read-only" - thumbdrive - GNOME error?

Question

I have Ubuntu 12.04. My problem is, I can't get write access to any USB device, like thumbdrive, SD card or digital camera using GNOME 3.4.1.

Both FAT32 and NTFS filesystems won't work.

From terminal I can create files without any problems...

But when I do this same from GNOME file explorer: "The destination is read-only":

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syslog:

Jul  1 21:52:48 alan-OEM kernel: [19186.444270] usb 1-5.1: reset high-speed USB device number 12 using ehci_hcd
Jul  1 21:52:48 alan-OEM kernel: [19186.539012] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-5.1:1.0
Jul  1 21:52:49 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.543752] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Generic  STORAGE DEVICE   9407 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Jul  1 21:52:49 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.546942] sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.769766] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] 15523840 512-byte logical blocks: (7.94 GB/7.40 GiB)
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.770881] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.770885] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.771900] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.771905] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.776387] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.776392] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.779555]  sdd: sdd1
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.784891] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.784896] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
Jul  1 21:52:50 alan-OEM kernel: [19187.784900] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

/etc/mtab:

/dev/sdd1 /media/CC2A-FA36 vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks 0 0
root@alan-OEM:/etc# 

And /media:

root@alan-OEM:/media# ls -l
total 12
drwx------ 26 alan alan 8192 sty  1  1970 CC2A-FA36

("alan" is my account.) It looks like like I have read-write-execute.

So from terminal:

alan@alan-OEM:/media/CC2A-FA36$ mkdir zzz
alan@alan-OEM:/media/CC2A-FA36$ mkdir zzzz


drwx------  2 alan alan     4096 lip  1 22:49 zzz
drwx------  2 alan alan     4096 lip  1 22:49 zzzz

Work great... but from GNOME I can't.... It's making me crazy...

Answer 1

I just ran into this issue with 14.04! All I wanted to do was copy a single file onto my thumbdrive. Luckily this question mentioned that it works in the terminal so I that's what I ended up doing.

Apparently it's still an open bug 😒: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1021375

Answer 2

I had the same issue in 12.04 LTS because of an outdated version of Nautilus. I solved using an update and dist-upgrade:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
nautilus -q

Hope it helps.