I had a similiar problem with a blackberry device not mounted. The patch to hal copied from a freedesktop.org mailing list seems to fix it ...
** Attachment added: "Patch to karmic hal" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/27616963/hal.patch -- ubuntu9.10 cannot find blackberry 7230 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379246 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