[PLUG] ThinkPad X200 Issues

Rich Shepard rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Wed Oct 26 23:09:16 UTC 2016


   There are several highly experienced ThinkPad uses here so I'm confident a
couple of issues on my 'new' X200 will quickly be resolved.

   1. As root and as a user when I quit from viewing a file, e.g., /etc/fstab
in an Xfce4 terminal rather than clearing the screen and displaying the
command line prompt again the prompt overwrites the top-most line of the
file's content and the rest of the file's content is below it. I've not
before encountered this and it appears to be X Window System related; this
does not happen when viewing a file on a console.

   2. After tailing /var/log/messages to ensure that the USB flash drive is
recognized as sdb1 I entered this line in /etc/fstab,

/dev/sdb1  /mnt/thumb   vfat   auto,users,ro  0  0

which is what I've used on other hosts. Now, even after a reboot neither
root or a user can attach the USB flash drive with the command, 'mount
/mnt/thumb' because it's the wrong file system type, has a bad master block,
or some other issue. Root can 'mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/thumb' with no problem.
Your thoughts on diagnosing the cause are needed.

Rich




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