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
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[Intrepid] USB automount broken by hal gparted policy
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/324845
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