KDE Automount stopped working

["Kumar Appaiah" <a.kumar@alumni.iitm.ac.in>]

Dear Debian Users,

For a few days now, KDE has stopped automounting my USB and CDs. I
seem to have to mount them myself now. To perform some diagnostics, I
attempted to purge and reinstall hal, udev and kdebase-kioplugins, but
to no avail.

Then, to check if the problem was something in my KDE dotfiles, I
moved away my .kde and tried again, but it failed once more. Finally,
I created a new user and added that user to most of the relevant
groups (inclding plugdev), but I still failed to get it working.

Most of the forum posts I have read suggest one of the solutions I
seem to have tried above already, and really wonder how to proceed.
Could someone make any suggestion, please?

The relevant packages with their versions:
ii  kdebase-kio-plugins   4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5      core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  udev                  0.125-5               /dev/ and hotplug
management daemon
ii  hal                   0.5.11-2              Hardware Abstraction Layer
ii  dbus           1.2.1-3        simple interprocess messaging system

Thanks in advance.

Kumar
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Kumar Appaiah