external drive not mounted upon login

[René Brandenburger]

Binary package hint: devicekit-disks

After upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10, my external drive is no longer mounted upon login, i have to go to Places -> name of the drive to get it mounted.
The drive is mounted fine if it is attached after loging in to the gnome desktop.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Nov 3 17:24:27 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
HotplugNewDevices: /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1
HotplugNewMounts: /dev/sdb1 /media/Backup reiserfs rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime 0 0
MachineType: Dell Inc. Latitude E6500
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: devicekit-disks 007-2ubuntu3
PccardctlIdent:
 Socket 0:
   no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
 Socket 0:
   no card
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=adf61fae-8dd5-43a4-a7cb-5581816f2724 ro splash
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_LU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: devicekit-disks
Symptom: storage
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic i686
dmi.bios.date: 02/13/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A12
dmi.board.name: 0PP476
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA12:bd02/13/2009:svnDellInc.:pnLatitudeE6500:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0PP476:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Latitude E6500
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Ah, unfortunately the information collected by ubuntu-bug won't help here, since it showed that automount actually worked. :-)

Can you please start your session with the drive already attached (so that it doesn't automount), and then copy&paste the output of

  gvfs-mount -li

here? Thanks!

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

the requested information

regards

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Indeed, your /dev/sdb has "should_automount=0".

[René Brandenburger (rene-brandenburger)]

is there a simple way to restore the old behaviour?

regaards
rene

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Well, it's not _meant_ to have "should_automount=0", so until someone has a deep look at the code to find what the problem is, then it's hard to have a workaround.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Oh, one thing you coudl try is to add it to /etc/fstab with the "user,auto" option. See "man fstab".

[Mark Garland (magarland)]

Possibly related: I'm running 9.10. I have one machine with two user accounts. I set gdm to autologin user "mark." Now user "mark" does not have any external drives automounted. Resetting gdm to the default login screen did not change this behavior. The other user "latin" has external drives automounted on login. (As user "latin," the output of gvfs-mount -li shows "should_automount=0" for all external drives, even though they are automounted.)