** Description changed:

- Binary package hint: ubuntu-desktop
+ Binary package hint: hal
  
  I can not get any kind of USB storage to automount anymore, and I don't
  know why.  This seems to be a common problem, but one that the solutions
  suggested elsewhere have not worked.  I have tried my three USB
  thumbdrives, in addition to my USB external hard drive all without
  success.
  
  The drives show up properly in the File Browser, but double-clicking
  fails without any sort of indication, and right-click and then clicking
  Mount also fails silently.  They show up in /dev/sd*, but do not make it
  any further.  I can confirm that I can mount them manually by
  
  sudo mkdir /media/usbthing
  mount /dev/sdf1 /media/usbthing
  
  but this mounts the drive as writable for sudo only, which is a big
  pain, and really annoying for a friend who I switched to Ubuntu who has
  the same issue (although on an x32 box, my home machine is x64).  I have
  tried reinstalling HAL, have tried to remove (and then re-add) "usbfree"
  from the gconf-config volume settings, as well as checking the USB
  drives for errors in both Windows and Ubuntu, as well as making sure
  that the drive is properly removed from a Windows machine.  Even
  rebooting with the drive plugged in doesn't work anymore, it still shows
  up in File Browser but it's the same as if I had just plugged it in.
  
  Outputs requested:
  id
  uid=1000(rthamilt) gid=1000(rthamilt) 
groups=4(adm),20(dialout),24(cdrom),25(floppy),29(audio),30(dip),44(video),46(plugdev),104(scanner),108(lpadmin),110(admin),115(netdev),117(powerdev),1000(rthamilt)
  
  id hal
  id: hal: No such user
  
  id haldaemon 
  uid=107(haldaemon) gid=116(haldaemon) 
groups=116(haldaemon),24(cdrom),25(floppy),46(plugdev),117(powerdev)
  
  uname -a
  Linux HomeBox 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Tue Feb 12 02:46:46 UTC 2008 x86_64 
GNU/Linux
  
  Attached are the additional outputs from the RemovableStorage bug guide.
  Thanks for anyone's assistance!

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USB storage fails to automount
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/216483
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