I've broken automount in Ubuntu 8.10

I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 with sickboy's kernel and basic gnome on my AAO. I've done alot of little tweaks and modifications along the way, and somehow managed to break my automount (for USB keys and SD cards, etc). Perhaps someone can help me fix this?

When I plug in the device, I can see it appear in dmesg. In the case of USB keys, it appears in Nautilus as an unmounted "USB Drive", but you cannot mount it from the gui.
At that point I can go into the terminal and manually mount it using gnome-mount -d /dev/sdb1 (or whatever device shows up in dmesg). This causes it to appear on the desktop and in nautilus and everywhere I am used to seeing it as normal - and allows me to eject it from the gui as normal.

So it appears that something is not triggering the call to gnome-mount.

I don't know how HAL works, but figure it must have something to do with that - or a package I inadvertently uninstalled.

Any ideas?

 

Re: Broken automount in Ubuntu 8.10

nope. pretty much a stock install with a custom kernel.

 

If you're using your own kernel build check this http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=277243
And first check your /etc/fstab for commented line where cdrom is mounting.
/Alex

 

Yes, I had this problem too after uncommenting too much in /etc/fstab, so you should definitely check that file: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=9276&start=0

 

my /etc/fstab only has entries for /proc, /, /home and swap

Also, I don't think it's kernel related, as I have the same issue if I boot with the stock Ubuntu kernel. (2.6.27-9-generic)

Thanks for the link though, as I had not seen this one.

 

Thanks for the link. This was a new idea for me. However, I don't think Intrepid has an sd_mod kernel module at all. Can anyone confirm?

 

Interesting - just to add to the description:

Neither of my 2 USB keys nor my 4Gb SD card automount like they used to.

However, my usb bluetooth dongle seems to work flawlessly (but I guess it doesn't really mount anything)

AND most interesting...
I borrowed a USB 3G stick from a friend - it has a mountable partition with the drivers on it, and that DOES automount as a CDROM (as it should) as soon as I plug it in!!!

One final thing: When this all started, I did go into gconf-editor both as myself and as root, and looked under Desktop|Gnome|Volume Manager, and found automount_drives and automount_media both unchecked (I think), and so I checked them both (as myself and as root). Could this have broken something?

Is this ringing any bells with anybody?

 

Could I have marked these specific devices as "don't automount" somewhere?