Comment 13 for bug 36249

(In reply to comment #12)
> 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)

yes, renaming pmount to pmount-hal solves the problem. Obviosly, i don't know is
this is the better solution.

Diego Woitasen