[SOLVED] Unable to put MP3 files onto SD card-- was able before latest MX

[sps7]

[My QSI is down below. My sole OS is MX19.2 with various KDE software.]

I figure some system change occurred in late 2019 when I installed the latest version of MX, which is now MX-19.2_x64 for me. Before that change late last year, I never had any trouble copying MP3 files from Dolphin and pasting them onto an SD card in a card reader. But once I installed the latest version of MX, I find I can't do this any longer. KDE Partition Manager and Gparted state my SD card is formatted in FAT32. kdf says the card's in vfat format. As general user, I have ownership and permission to view and modify the files on that card.

When I'm using Dolphin to try to paste a new MP3 file onto the SD card (which has ample room for a number of MP3 files), I see that the "paste one file" in Dolphin isn't enabled: it's dimmed out.

Why can't I paste more files onto that card? Maybe this is something simple that I'm not recognizing-- I don't know.

[My sole OS is MX-19.2_x64 with various KDE software.]


My QSI:

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System:    Host: <filter> Kernel: 5.6.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc 
           v: 8.3.0 
           parameters: audit=0 intel_pstate=disable 
           BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.6.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 
           root=UUID=<filter> ro quiet splash 
           Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.14.5 tk: Qt 5.11.3 wm: kwin_x11 dm: SDDM 
           Distro: MX-19.2_x64 patito feo October 21  2019 base: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) 
Machine:   Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 10B00013US v: ThinkCentre M73 serial: <filter> 
           Chassis: type: 3 serial: <filter> 
           Mobo: LENOVO model: N/A v: SDK0E50510 WIN serial: <filter> BIOS: LENOVO v: FCKT72AUS 
           date: 08/04/2015 
CPU:       Topology: Quad Core model: Intel Core i5-4590 bits: 64 type: MCP arch: Haswell 
           family: 6 model-id: 3C (60) stepping: 3 microcode: 28 L2 cache: 6144 KiB 
           flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 bogomips: 26339 
           Speed: 3407 MHz min/max: 800/3301 MHz boost: enabled Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3407 
           2: 3358 3: 3391 4: 3252 
           Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Vulnerable 
           Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion 
           Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT disabled 
           Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI 
           Type: spec_store_bypass 
           mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp 
           Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization 
           Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW, 
           STIBP: disabled, RSB filling 
           Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected 
Graphics:  Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor Integrated Graphics 
           vendor: Lenovo driver: i915 v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:0412 
           Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.4 driver: none compositor: kwin_x11 
           resolution: 1280x1024~60Hz 
           OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Haswell Desktop v: 4.5 Mesa 18.3.6 compat-v: 3.0 
           direct render: Yes 
Audio:     Device-1: Intel Xeon E3-1200 v3/4th Gen Core Processor HD Audio vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:03.0 chip ID: 8086:0c0c 
           Device-2: Intel 8 Series/C220 Series High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus ID: 00:1b.0 chip ID: 8086:8c20 
           Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.6.0-16.2-liquorix-amd64 
Network:   Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet vendor: Lenovo 
           driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000 bus ID: 02:00.0 chip ID: 10ec:8168 
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter> 
           Device-2: Realtek RTL8192CU 802.11n WLAN Adapter type: USB driver: rtl8192cu 
           bus ID: 3-1:2 chip ID: 0bda:8178 serial: <filter> 
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter> 
Drives:    Local Storage: total: 465.76 GiB used: 119.21 GiB (25.6%) 
           ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Toshiba model: DT01ACA050 size: 465.76 GiB block size: 
           physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s rotation: 7200 rpm serial: <filter> 
           rev: A7C0 scheme: GPT 
Partition: ID-1: / raw size: 19.42 GiB size: 18.99 GiB (97.79%) used: 9.53 GiB (50.2%) fs: ext4 
           dev: /dev/sda1 
           ID-2: /home raw size: 4.54 GiB size: 4.41 GiB (97.05%) used: 756.3 MiB (16.8%) 
           fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda3 
           ID-3: swap-1 size: 16.07 GiB used: 1.0 MiB (0.0%) fs: swap 
           swappiness: 15 (default 60) cache pressure: 100 (default) dev: /dev/sda2 
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 43.0 C mobo: N/A 
           Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A 
Repos:     No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster-updates main contrib non-free
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list 
           1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian/ buster main contrib non-free
           2: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian-security/ buster/updates non-free contrib main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google-earth-pro.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/earth/deb/ stable main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/megasync.list 
           1: deb https://mega.nz/linux/MEGAsync/Debian_10.0/ ./
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list 
           1: deb http://mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ buster non-free main
           Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/skype-stable.list 
           1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.skype.com/deb stable main
           No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/various.list 
Info:      Processes: 230 Uptime: 7h 15m Memory: 7.69 GiB used: 6.09 GiB (79.1%) Init: SysVinit 
           v: 2.93 runlevel: 5 default: 5 Compilers: gcc: 8.3.0 alt: 8 Shell: quick-system-in 
           running in: quick-system-in inxi: 3.0.36 

[dolphin_oracle]

is the same true of thunar?

is the read-only switch on your card enabled? full size sd cards have a slider that locks the card. even microsd card readers have them sometimes.

[sps7]

I couldn't paste the MP3 file using thunar and even when I set the SD lock in the other position, I still couldn't paste the file.

[dolphin_oracle]

can you create a new file on the card at all? any file.

the output of the

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mount

command while the card is mounted might shed some light as well.

and is it one card or any card?

[sps7]

I tried another SD card of a smaller capacity but the same physical size. I did have the same pasting problem as I had with the larger capacity SD card which holds many MP3 files.

But here's the output for the smaller capacity SD card when running mount:

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# mount
sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime)
udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,nosuid,relatime,size=3997484k,nr_inodes=999371,mode=755)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,size=806732k,mode=755)
/dev/sda1 on / type ext4 (rw,noatime)
selinuxfs on /sys/fs/selinux type selinuxfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k)
pstore on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw,relatime)
configfs on /sys/kernel/config type configfs (rw,relatime)
tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=4983220k)
/dev/sda4 on /media/sps7/data type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime)
/dev/sda3 on /home type ext4 (rw,noatime)
rpc_pipefs on /run/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw,relatime)
cgroup on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw,relatime,size=12k,mode=755)
tmpfs on /run/user/119 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=806728k,mode=700,uid=119,gid=129)
systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,release_agent=/run/cgmanager/agents/cgm-release-agent.systemd,name=systemd)
tmpfs on /run/user/1000 type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=806728k,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000)
gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/fuse on /run/user/1000/doc type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=1000)
/dev/sdb1 on /media/sps7/322D-9B28 type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)

[JayM]

Can you right-click in the SD card's mountpoint in your file manager and create a new text file?

[sps7]

I tried that in Dolphin. No luck. I'm told by Dolphin or my OS:

Could not write to /media/sps7/DD6D-9696/new text file on this SD card.part.

Does this problem have something to do with the other options available when one looks, in Dolphin in my case, at the properties for the SD card? Currently in the properties under Permissions, I'm both user and group. Is that wrong? In the upper part of Dolphin's Properties tab for the SD card, I can't change the Group entry to "Can view and modify content". It's only for me as user and owner that I have there "Can view and modify content" for me as user and owner. The other two entries there -- Group, Others -- only have

Can only view content.

Also, in the upper part of Dolphin's Properties tab for the SD card, I can't put a check mark in the box that reads "Only owner can rename and delete folder content". When I try to check that box, I get:

Could not change permissions for /media/sps7/DD6D-9696.

And finally, in the lower part of the Properties tab -- the part called Ownership -- I'm both user and group and the little box Apply changes to all subfolders and their contents can't be checked. If I try to check that box, I get:

Could not change permissions for /media/sps7/DD6D-9696/Strauss - Also sprach Zarathustra - Death and Transfiguration - Vienna Phil, G. Dudamel, Salzburg, 2014.mp3.

I examined the properties for that piece of music and can't see what's wrong there.

[dolphin_oracle]

The mount options look to me like they are set to read only.

Why they are set to read only is a good question.

[sps7]

In Dolphin (looking at the SD card) > Properties > Permissions > Ownership, maybe it's not good that I'm both user and Group? I think early this year, I might have changed the Group to my username. What should the ownership for Group be for an SD card?

[JayM]

Run MX Tweak, click the Other tab, check the checkbox to enable mounting of internal drives by non-root users. Logout/in and see if that makes a difference.