I don’t know what happened but today I noticed that I can no longer attach USB storage device (“USB stick”) to my disposable qubes (tried attaching to debian-based disposables, as well as whonix-based disposables).
I plug in the USB stick to the USB port of my NV41 laptop. Then, on the devices sys tray icon, I click on “SanDisk” device (sys-usb: 4-3) and attach it to a disposable. In the disposable terminal I use the command lsblk to check any new usb devices, and I don’t see any.
Has something changed with the way qubesos does its usb attaching to the qubes? It was working very well up to today. If it was a change from the qubesos development, well then, these are the kinds of things that make the user wish the devs didn’t change.
OK. I noticed that I can attach the USB to the qubes if I select the device from Data (Block) Devices header. But trying the attaching from USB Devices header fails as I described in my original post (OP).
This was not the way it was before. Before, I had always done my attaching from the USB Devices header and it worked.
What is going on? Why is there now a confusing UI with USB storage device attachment workflow on the devices systray?