Comment 12 for bug 216483

That was one of the things I checked, but it never *got* to /etc/fstab or any the related ones. It was borking up somewhere way before that, and I don't think there was any consensus as to what was going on. I could have entered the /etc/fstab entry by hand, but honestly, what use is that? The whole point of thumb drives and the like for me is that I can plug them in, use them, and pull them out with a minimum amount of hassle. Anything else necessary to get them to work is just a pain and a problem.

As of now this particular problem is not present for me in Ubuntu 8.04, but it is a clean install and not an upgrade (sorry mash), since by that point the previous install had gotten to be such a terrible mess that I had to kill it all and start from scratch with a fresh install. I haven't had a successful upgrade yet (out of 4) actually, and even a catastrophic one (Xubuntu7.10 -> 8.04).