gnome-volume-manager fails to automount

Bug #26866 reported by John LaBounty
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Medium
Martin Pitt

Bug Description

After adding a new user, gnome-volume-manager faild to aoutmount USB flah drive,
hard drine, and media in a card reader. I was able to use pmount manually to
acess the drives. I was able to get it working again after a complete removal,
reboot, and reinstialtion. I have read numerous complaints on the Ubuntu forums
with simmilar complaints of the failure to automount USB devices.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

You mean drives are not automounted for the new user? You have to explicitly
allow this for new users (look in the 'privileges' section in the users admin
tool). New users created with the users admin tool automatically have this
privilege since the 'Desktop' profile is the default.

Please send me the output of 'id' as the user that does not get automounting to
confirm this.

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John LaBounty (firenurse4) wrote :

(In reply to comment #1)
> You mean drives are not automounted for the new user? You have to explicitly
> allow this for new users (look in the 'privileges' section in the users admin
> tool). New users created with the users admin tool automatically have this
> privilege since the 'Desktop' profile is the default.
>
> Please send me the output of 'id' as the user that does not get automounting to
> confirm this.

Actually this was for all users including myself. Adding the new user was the
only change made to the system before the automounting failed. I have not been
able to replicate this problem since.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

(In reply to comment #2)

> Actually this was for all users including myself. Adding the new user was the
> only change made to the system before the automounting failed. I have not been
> able to replicate this problem since.

That rings a bell, see bug #26338. What does

  id hal

say? If it is not in the groups 'cdrom', 'floppy', and 'plugdev', can you please do

  sudo adduser hal cdrom
  sudo adduser hal floppy
  sudo adduser hal plugdev

to fix it?

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

(In reply to comment #3)

> That rings a bell, see bug #26338. What does
>
> id hal
>
> say? If it is not in the groups 'cdrom', 'floppy', and 'plugdev', can you
please do
>
> sudo adduser hal cdrom
> sudo adduser hal floppy
> sudo adduser hal plugdev
>
> to fix it?

No answer so far, but the description has enough evidence to make it a dup of
#20237.

Please try to reproduce the issue and get a recipe how to do it. I was unable to
get this effect. Thanks!

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26338.

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