mount directory is not removed from /media when computer is rebooted with external disk mounted

[Agnes Weiershäuser]

Binary package hint: gnome-mount

Release: Hardy
Steps to reproduce:
1. Mount external drive e.g. named "EXTERN"
2. Reboot
Result: there are two entries in /media: "EXTERN" and "EXTERN_" ("EXTERN" now is inaccessible)
Expected Result: one entry in /media: "EXTERN"

[cocolocotero (jalvarezrom)]

In my case the external drive don't have permission.
Steps:
1 Reboot. Then I has a disk (500GB name)
2 I see /media/ directory and see only the disk '500GB' but WITHOUT permissions
3 I pulse the gnome icon for the disk '500GB' and open BUT now I have
     /media/500GB and a new disk with permissions /media/500GB_

[A.C. (aarcooper)]

I have the same issue with all of my external Harddrives. I now have a /media/ directory full of those appended underscores.
This does not occur with internal harddrives however.

Here is output from terminal

$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc2 14G 3.3G 11G 24% /
varrun 1.2G 88K 1.2G 1% /var/run
varlock 1.2G 0 1.2G 0% /var/lock
udev 1.2G 96K 1.2G 1% /dev
devshm 1.2G 44K 1.2G 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1.2G 38M 1.1G 4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/volatile
/dev/sdd2 270G 251G 19G 94% /media/NTFS DRIVE____
/dev/sdd1 9.8G 171M 9.6G 2% /media/FATDRIVE____
/dev/sdf1 299G 234G 65G 79% /media/FreeAgent Drive_____

output from /media/ directory:
$ ls /media/
200GBSATA FATDRIVE_ FreeAgent Drive NTFS DRIVE
250GBSATA FATDRIVE__ FreeAgent Drive_ NTFS DRIVE_
cdrom FATDRIVE___ FreeAgent Drive__ NTFS DRIVE__
cdrom0 FATDRIVE____ FreeAgent Drive___ NTFS DRIVE___
cdrom1 floppy FreeAgent Drive____ NTFS DRIVE____
FATDRIVE floppy0 FreeAgent Drive_____ Windows

Additional info about build:

~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu hardy (development branch)
Release: 8.04

$ uname -r
2.6.24-16-generic

If anyone knows how to fix this that would be great.