USB Flash Drives and Media Cards no longer automounting

[f4phantomii]

I'm running a vanilla FC6 installation with updates.

Running kernel 2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 on an AMD Athlon (32-bit).

I have a card reader installed, as well as the usual USB ports.

If I insert a USB flash drive, dmesg reports:

scsi11 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
Vendor: Memorex Model: USB2 ThumbDrive Rev: 2.00
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
SCSI device sde: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sde: Write Protect is on
sde: Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sde: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB)
sde: Write Protect is on
sde: Mode Sense: 03 00 80 00
sde: assuming drive cache: write through
sde: sde1
sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sde
sd 11:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

I can manually mount the drive and everything is fine. Similar results with a Compact Flash, or SD card.

Upon insertion, these used to be automounted and available in Gnome.

Now, when they are inserted, they actually disappear from the the list in the Gnome Desktop.

These used to work flawlessly, both in FC5 and at first in FC6.

Any idea where I might look to fix the problem? I know an entry into /etc/fstab isn't the answer....there is some other problem.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

-Michael

[rappermas]

You're right, /etc/fstab won't do much here. In Gnome, go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media. Make sure that the window looks like this:

[f4phantomii]

Originally Posted by rappermas

You're right, /etc/fstab won't do much here. In Gnome, go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives and Media. Make sure that the window looks like this:

Yep....mine looks exactly like that.

I still have an installation of FC5 and hotplugging of these same USB devices works fine.

I keep the same gnome settings between both FC5 and FC6 (same home directory).

Any other thoughts?

[f4phantomii]

Aha....fixed thanks to the "similar thread" it found at the bottom.

Problem appears to be this bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=215657

[xen]

I was also experiencing this problem, the solution is as follows (taken from linked bugzilla post):

This following file, if renamed, does not stop problem. It still persists still
persists. Either delete file, or chmod 000 gparted-disable-automount.fdi

Path to it is /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/

File is gparted-disable-automount.fdi

[gtr225]

This seemed to solve my problem too. As long as I can remember, Fedora auto-mounted my mp3 player and digital camera, both are USB Mass Storage devices. This problem just occured today and the only thing I can remember doing differently was installing some updates today. Maybe that caused the problem?

[o2binh20]

Originally Posted by xen

I was also experiencing this problem, the solution is as follows (taken from linked bugzilla post):

It seems like this bug is back again since I upgraded to 2.6.20-1.2933 last night. I don't understand what gparted does or for that matter how you used it to fix your problem. Care to elaborate?

[Shakes]

Good job guys, just got this problem the other day and the chmod 000 command worked straight away.

Awesome.