udev and gnome-volume-manager not working in Sarge

["H. S." <greatexcalibur@yahoo.com>]

I am using Sarge with a kernel 2.6.7-1-686. I have udev and hotplug and 
gnome-volume-manager. However, I do not get an icon automatically when I 
plug in a USB stick. In the other two machines in my home LAN, in which 
I am running Sid, I can get the icon consistently.

In this machine, running Sarge, I set up udev the same way as in other 
machines. Sometimes (rarely) when I plug in the USB stick I do get the 
icon on the desktop and it gets automatically mounted. Also, this hasn't 
happened for a few days now. Usually, it happens only if I insert the 
USB stick for the first time after reboot.

But syslog shows that it sees USB insertion and de-pluggin events 
consistently. I also get the links made in /dev as I have specified in 
udev rules files for the USB stick I have. The only thing that does not 
happens is that the icon does not appear on the desk and it does not get 
mounted automatically (just as if gnome-volumen-manager is not seeing 
the stick). I have tried it in 2.6.9 kernel as well, but it doesn't work 
there even. Any idea what I am missing here?

#> dpkg -l udev hotplug *dbus* gnome-volume-manager | grep ^ii
ii  udev           0.048-2        /dev/ management daemon
ii  hotplug        0.0.20040329-1 Linux Hotplug Scripts
ii  dbus-1         0.22-3         simple interprocess messaging system
ii  dbus-glib-1    0.22-3         simple interprocess messaging system 
(GLib-b
ii  python2.3-dbus 0.22-3         simple interprocess messaging system 
(Python
ii  gnome-volume-m 1.0.2-4        GNOME daemon to auto-mount and manage 
media


thanks,
->HS