I just did another update on my System 76 POP!os. I also installed Akregator so I can set up an RSS feed. I did them roughly the same time. This is the message I got after installing Akregator:
“Avahi is a fully LGPL framework for Multicast DNS Service Discovery. It allows programs to publish and discover services and hosts running on a local network with no specific configuration. For example you can plug into a network and instantly find printers to print to, files to look at and people to talk to.
This package contains some small GTK + utilities to discover ssh and vnc servers.”
I understand less than half of that! Is this a good thing? A bad thing? Helpful information for those who understand it? I have no clue.
After this, my external SSD became unmounted and I can’t figure out how to fix it. The error message says:
“Unable to access “New Volume” (the name of the SSD)
Error mounting /dev/sda2 at /media/lindaheath/New Volume” Unknown error when mounting /dev/sda2"
I tried to rebooting. That didn’t change anything.
I looked up other people’s issues and one I had before and tried the following, but I don’t know what it means:
I’m not familiar with Akregator, so I’m not going to be much help there. What I can say is that Avahi is a nice addition to any operating system, as its purpose is to detect things on a network ( my printer for example ). In other words, it’s a good thing.
Regarding the external disk, might you have another system you can plug the external device into, to ensure that it’s functional?
The “sudo apt install ngfs-3g fuse” you ran exited as it did because the packages are already installed. The command says “hey linux, please install the software packages ntfs-3g and fuse”.
Yes the drive is working fine on my Win10 machine. It did bring up a message saying there was a possible error, so I did a scan and told it to fix it, but it said no problems were found. It seems to be easily accessible. It’s my backup files of everything from my Win10 so I can access them on my System 76 POP!os machine. After the first little glitch where I couldn’t figure out if I could see it or not on my Linux setup, it’s been working fine. I’ve used several files, saved files to it, etc. Then after this download I shows in the list on the left, but not accessible (unmounted?)
It seems like every time I want to add a new app from the Pop!Shop, something weird happens. It makes me pretty cautious about installing anything. I don’t really understand what’s happening in the background and what I can do to resolve these glitchy things. In Win10 I have Task Manager so I can see more about what’s going on and force a program to end. I know there’s several things in Linux that do that, I just haven’t discovered them, yet. Despite these challenges, I’ll take Linux any day over MS anything.
After windows scanned the drive I’d be interested to see if Linux mounts it - can you plug it in?
When disconnecting the external, do you eject or unmount it prior to unplugging?
Yes I typically make sure to eject it safely. However, since it was already unmounted, I didn’t know how to do that. An icon shows in the lower toolbar that shows it’s there. In the list there is another icon next to the name that says “Unmount” so I click on that to safely remove it. But the Unmount icon was missing… and when I clicked on it, it gave me the error message. So I just pulled it out.
The external drive is NEW VOLUME, and probably the system drive is /dev/sda2 but I don’t know this for sure.
The next day after shutting down my computer and then opening it up again, it recognized the external drive. It’s working fine, now, but I don’t understand what happened: why it suddenly stopped recognizing it, and why rebooting fixed it? (I know rebooting solves a lot of things, but my first reboot didn’t fix it.)
AND… am I going to run into problems every time I try to add another app?
I so appreciate you guys who know more and are willing to help out and explain things!
When it showed as unmounted (the 1st time) I removed it. Then I stuck it back in and that didn’t work, so I rebooted and it still didn’t work. Then I turned it off for the night, and after I booted it up the next day I plugged it in and it worked. I’m not sure why that worked better, but it clearly did.
Ok lets have a look at your drives and their mount points.
Check to see if Gparted or Partition editor is installed on your system. If not, then install Gparted. Launch it and take some screen shots of your devices on your system.
So your drive is encrypted. This could be the cause of the mounting glitch.
I notice you have a NVMe drive.
Is this a Desktop or a Mac machine?
Now…Plug your USB Drive in, get it working (mounted) and then launch Gparted and we will see where your usb drive is mounting. You should be able to view the drive info by selecting it from this drop down.
This is selected from the drop-down like you asked above. After activating the GParted, I clicked on the drop-down and there are only 2 options.
This is the upper one: /dev/nvme0n1 (the hard drive on the laptop?)
The lower option is: /dev/sda (the New Volume–external SSD?)
