external usb disks no longer mount in gutsy

I suspect it might be a fault with gnome-volume-manager instead of hal.

I can mount the drives with 'sudo mount', and hal-device reports they are mounted.

The problem still exists after the upgrade to kernel 2.6.22-10.

Other application versions that might be of use are:

gnome-volume-manager 2.17.0-ubuntu1
gnome-mount 0.6.1-ubuntu2
nautilus 1:2.19.90-0ubuntu1
hal 0.5.9.1-ubuntu2

I can confirm this. I have this problem too.

same isuess here. maybe this is related to:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-volume-manager/+bug/129935

I tried some of the suggestions in the forums, but they didn't help.

However, I installed tribe5 from scratch and now my drives automount again.

I can consistently break automounting in tribe5 (although rebooting the PC fixes it):

1. I Run gparted.

2. I tell it to unmount the external 120 GB USB drive. It does so (and then crashes when rescanning devices).

3. I re-run gparted and tell it to format the external drive to FAT32. It does so (and then crashes when rescanning devices).

Now neither of my external drives will automount until I reboot the PC. I can still manually mount them with the sudo mount command, though.

After yesterday's updates it is broken again. The drives do not automount any more, even after a complete reboot.

I found what seems to be the problem, thanks to bug #131107. gparted creates the file:

/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi

which stops any drives from automounting.

I removed the file and restarted hal with "sudo /etc/init.d/hal restart" but this didn't have any effect; but after I rebooted completely, my drives now automount.

Normally gparted deletes the file when it exits. I assume that (a) because gparted crashed, it didn't delete the file; (b) originally when I was rebooting, the file was flagged each time for deletion upon exit, so it didn't persist, and after reboot the drives mounted; but at some point the file became persistent and this broke automounting.

Although gparted needs to stop drives from automounting (eg see bug #37768 and its duplicates), it's a bit dangerous to allow a file that disables all automounting to persist through reboots. To the end user, it just looks like automounting is broken.

it's now working for me with latest updates. maybe it's fixed?

and no i didn't have gparted-disable-automount.fdi nor i have done anything to try to fix it. It just have gone away...

After removing gparted-disable-automount.fdi it works for me too.

great stuff - was having the same problem after using gparted, and removing gparted-disable-automount.fdi got it all happening again for me, too.

I'm marking this as duplicate, as its obviously actually a bug in gparted.

Hi.
I'm having similar problems.
After installing Gutsy,
My 5'th Gen iPod video will not mount at all.
And, I am having a problem with my LaCie external Hard Drive.
At first, I could not read or write to it as Gutsy annoyingly made it a Root only permission by default. This was really irritating, but not unfixable.
Then, after I changed the permissions so that all users could read/write/delete/change files, it seemed to work fine.
Then, the other day when I tried to copy my school assignment to the school folder on my LaCie, it (Gutsy) would not let me. "Access Denied; you don't have permissions to write to this folder". When I used
Code:

gksudo nautilus

to try to re-change the permissions as Root, I got; "The Owner Could Not Be Changed; Couldn't change the owner of "LaCie" because it is on a read-only disk".
There is no switch or button on the LaCie, that makes it "read only".
It's a USB external drive. There would be no point in making it "read only"
It Isn't read only.
I don't care what Gutsy thinks.
I can access it fine on the Macs at school.
So at the moment, I am unable to use it on this computer.

Suchawato, the bug you're reporting seems to be a different one. Please open a new bug report for it.

thank's, removing gparted-disable-automount.fdi it works for me too.