I had the same symptoms and found out I was experiencing the effects of this bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=434268
If this turns out to be the reason in your case too, simply removing /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/gparted-disable-automount.fdi - file will give you back automounting. --- Mikko Nurminen 2008/10/3 José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm wondering: Is anyone running lenny/sid (unstable) able to connect their > flash drive and have it automatically appear on their gnome desktop? I've > tested, and a flash drive connected on a fully updated stable system (etch) > automatically appears on the desktop while it does not on my fully updated > unstable (amd64) system. Is there some package responsible for this > functionality that I might be missing? Any help would be much appreciated. > TIA. > > -- > José Alburquerque > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

