Sounds very like a problem identified back in January (Cauldron Alpha 2 release was where I first saw it) and is possibly being caused by a squabble between udisks versions 1 and 2 and HAL over which should mount and unmount devices.
I am working in a fairly pure LXDE environment and therefore I need neither udisks v1 nor HAL and as a result my external device handling is pretty damn near perfect. Things only get messed up when udisks 1 and HAL try to get involved, but I understand that is inevitable for KDE users. As a gnome user, you could try a tentative urpme udisks and see what else will go with it. Likewise with HAL. You should also check that you have no cdrom entry in /etc/fstab if you want to try the udisks2 only method - but believe me, it works. Richard On 28/05/2012, Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2012-05-29 at 03:20 +1000, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > >> I don't use gnome, but since xfce is derived from it, I would have >> expected the same behavior. > > Note, LXDE is not derived from Gnome. These days it uses the gtk+ > toolkit which is also used by Gnome (it used to use XForms). But it is > nota Gnome fork or derivative. So it's not surprising if there are > differences. > > Best, > > Liam > > -- > Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ > Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ > Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml > >
