Comment 12 for bug 36249

Perhaps the temporary solution posted in Comment # 11 and Ubuntuforums kills too
many things. For example, usb shuttles or drives no longer mount. My silly idea
is change auto to vfat in /etc/fstab and use a launcher on the desktop or top
panel to mount floppies (command: pmount /dev/fd0).

I've just done that, and I'm waiting for things to be sorted out with pmount-hal.

As Comment #9, I think pmount and pmount-hal are the bad guys. As a test, I
swapped the file names and everything (floppy, usb devices and cd) mounted via
nautilus (not auto-mount, just clicking on it)