Public bug reported: Binary package hint: hal
Since upgrading to 8.10 (hal 0.5.11-4ubuntu4) I've noticed USB drives stopped auto-mounting, although I was able to manually mount them (either from command line or through the Gnome desktop). I tracked down the cause of my problem to /etc/hal/fdi/policy/gparted- disable-automount.fdi which was telling hal to set all hotpluggable drives to not be automount-able. I guess this was to fix an issue with gparted, but it had the side effect of stopping all USB drives from automounting. To get around this I modified the policy to prevent automount of drives that were hotpluggable but not removable, as follows: r...@rob-desktop:~$ cat /etc/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi <deviceinfo version='0.2'> <device> <match key='storage.hotpluggable' bool='true'> <match key='storage.removable' bool='false'> <merge key='storage.automount_enabled_hint' type='bool'>false</merge> </match> </match> </device> </deviceinfo> I'm not sure if this still keeps the original gparted fix intact or not, as I don't know what the issue was with gparted, but this does fix USB device automounting for me. ** Affects: hal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- [Intrepid] USB automount broken by hal gparted policy https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324845 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs