Comment 3 for bug 86851

It seems this is a dup of bug #37768

Btw, you should patch upstream solution of this bug, because it's sort of "dirty hack" (look at http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324220#c38 for more info):

 Comment #36 from A. Murat Eren (points: 0)
2007-02-19 11:30 UTC [reply]

I'd like to add some extra information. [When Gparted starts it creates]
/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi file, [which] causes some problems as you suspected before. Sometimes it remains there even GParted is not running anymore. Because of this file, HAL doesn't automount USB devices properly.

There are similar bug reports in both Fedora's and Pardus's bug tracking systems (I know there is a FIXME in the code, I just wanted to imply that it really needs to be fixed ;)).