usb storage drive does not automount

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To help us fix it, please include the information requested from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices as separate attachments.

-Gabriel

all info from the debug walkthrough has been posted.

I also have this problem with my Seagate drive only. Two other thumb drives, and one other external hard drive (Fujitsu, via an unknown brand enclosure) 'automagically' mount with no problem.

I will included all outputs as described in the DebuggingRemovableDevices portion of the wiki. I am using Feisty Fawn 7.04, with Hal 0.5.8.1-4ubuntu12. I've used the methods described for 'Dapper Drake' as there are none specific to Feisty yet.

'id' output:
 uid=1000(orson) gid=1000(orson) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),110(netdev),111(lpadmin),113(powerdev),114(scanner),116(admin),1000(orson)

'id hal' output:
id: hal: No such user

'id haldaemon' output:
uid=107(haldaemon) gid=112(haldaemon) groups=112(haldaemon),24(cdrom),25(floppy),46(plugdev),113(powerdev)

'uname -a' output:
Linux Bear 2.6.20-14-generic #2 SMP Mon Apr 2 20:37:49 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

I could not follow the steps at ...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingRemovableDevices
... because my system lacks the gnome-volume-manager utility, but I am willing to provide any debugging data that might be needed.

The problem is that it just won't automount on reboot; other than that, it mounts without problem if I do it manually after boot.

Here's some data about my box:

dmesg about my USB drive:
[17179612.976000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[17179613.032000] Vendor: Maxtor Model: OneTouch II Rev: 023g
[17179613.032000] Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 04
[17179613.172000] SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
[17179613.228000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17179613.228000] sda: Mode Sense: 24 00 00 00
[17179613.228000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179613.284000] SCSI device sda: 398297088 512-byte hdwr sectors (203928 MB)
[17179613.340000] sda: Write Protect is off
[17179613.340000] sda: Mode Sense: 24 00 00 00
[17179613.340000] sda: assuming drive cache: write through
[17179613.340000] sda: sda1
[17179613.368000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
[17179613.420000] sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0

my /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/hda1
UUID=bfd7d811-0bc4-4215-bde2-a3242edb0e8c / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0
 1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=997b0f1a-dda3-446a-8e81-a58342e7ec3a none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sda1 /media/usbdisk auto rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/ /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0

jsandeo@backupbox:/var/log$ uname -a
Linux backupbox 2.6.17-11-generic #2 SMP Thu Feb 1 19:52:28 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
jsandeo@backupbox:/var/log$ id
uid=1000(jsandeo) gid=1000(jsandeo) groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),112(scanner),114(admin),1000(jsandeo)
jsandeo@backupbox:/var/log$ id hal
id: hal: No such user
jsandeo@backupbox:/var/log$ id haldaemon
uid=106(haldaemon) gid=110(haldaemon) groups=110(haldaemon),24(cdrom),25(floppy),46(plugdev)
jsandeo@backupbox:/var/log$
jsandeo@backupbox:/var/log$ ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 0 2007-05-16 18:34 /dev/sda
brw-rw---- 1 root plugdev 8, 1 2007-05-16 18:34 /dev/sda1

In my case, device nodes were being created. The fun started when I ran "hald" in foreground and I got the following message:

*** [DIE] mmap_cache.c:di_rules_init():68 : Unable to open cache /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache

This post (google cache if link is broken) has more about it:
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal-commit/2007-March/003077.html

Lo and behold, there is a fdi-cache~ in the same directory. Renaming it, then restarting hald in the background makes KDE pop up the "mount" dialog upon device connection.

Nothing is mounted, though, I am just sharing this tidbit in case it helps somebody else.

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