Comment 8 for bug 12339

I have been stracing hald while I insert a USB disk.
I cant attach the trace because the file is too big (2Mb).

In that log I can see one or more attempts to open a temporal file on /etc.
Those attempts come from the fstab-sync process which is called by hal.
hald/fstab-sync have no privileges to create files in /etc.

Doing a "chmod 777 /etc" enables fstab-sync to create that file and update the
fstab.

The problem now comes from gnome-vfs-daemon. I have to manually kill it to force
nautilus
to show the new devices.

At this point I can mount devices from nautilus but I cant umount them, nautilus
thinks that
they are not mounted.

I agree the rest of the comments of the bug: hal creates the device nodes, I can
use pmount to
mount them, etc...

May be gamin be involved in this bug?

I'm using Hoary up-to-date.
kernel version: 2.6.10-2
hal version is 0.4.7-1ubuntu1
gamin version: 0.0.21-0ubuntu2

Pd. Excuse my poor english.