Same issue. In fstab, the drive is mounted as /dev/sde1 (read only), and you can mount it via terminal with root privileges. I'm thinking it's not a HAL issue, but a permissions issue.
If you can mount it as root, then it's not actually broken. :p Oh, and pmount from the repos does not work as normal user. You need SU to get it to mount, which defeats the purpose. -- Cannot automount External drive in GNOME https://launchpad.net/bugs/76145 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
