Dapper Beta: removable media no longer mounted automaticly

[Guy Van Sanden]

I upgraded my Breezy workstation to Dapper at Flight 5 and went to the subsequent upgrades up to the Beta (last update: 2006-04-24).

After the upgrade, removable devices were no longer automounted on my desktop.

Creating a new user did not solve anything.

There are no errors, nothing in syslog or dmesg except the succesfull detection of the drive.

Clicking CD-ROM in places does mount my CD-ROM.

I tested with several USB sticks and a CD-ROM.

[sam tygier (samtygier)]

i thanks for the report. please could you follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices and attach the information to the bug.

[Guy Van Sanden (gvs)]

I tried to follow the procedure, but as it turns out gnome-volume-manager isn't running and starting it fails (without error message).

If I invoke gnome-volume-manager 2>&1 | tee gvm.log, it exists and the file is empty.

I did include the output of the other commands though.

[Guy Van Sanden (gvs)]

ls -l /dev/sd* > devices.txt

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dmesg

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id hal

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id current user

Note: My users are stored in an LDAP directory, so this is not a local user.

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lshal output

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uname

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Hald output

[Guy Van Sanden (gvs)]

From what I can tell, hald seems to be working.

I did a purge of both hal and gnome-volume-manager and reinstalled them, this didn't seem to help.

I also checked haldaemon permissions against the Beta2 livecd, and they match.

[Guy Van Sanden (gvs)]

Hal etc seems to be working fine, it's gnome-vm that fails.

[Guy Van Sanden (gvs)]

It seems that a duplicate report got a lot further already:

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-volume-manager/+bug/43035
describes the exact same problem as I have

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Closing as duplicate of bug #34063