Mikko Nurminen wrote:
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
Thanks. There was indeed a gparted-disable-automount.fdi file in /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy so it seems I too have been a victim of this bug :-). I've removed it so it should fix it for me. I can't test it now because my niece now has the flash drive I would use to test it, but I'm pretty sure this was the problem since gnome-volume-manager has always been installed and running properly in all gnome logins. I'll test later to verify and will post if any problems arise, but I think all should be well now. Thanks again.
-- José Alburquerque