usb drives not automounting in nautilus

[cnschulz]

Howdy,

Stumped.

I can manually mount my iPod shuffle and USB key however they wont auto mount.

I cant remember when this stopped but i will admit i did move my install to a new disk. Perhaps there is a permission problem somewhere? the media folder my be incorrect?

drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2010-01-09 16:34 media

The devices are listed correctly in lsusb:
Bus 001 Device 008: ID 05ac:1301 Apple, Inc. iPod Shuffle 2.Gen

and dmesg | tail
[ 2233.640852] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2233.640858] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
[ 2233.640863] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2233.643417] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 991232 2048-byte hardware sectors: (2.03 GB/1.89 GiB)
[ 2233.643911] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 2233.643917] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 64 00 00 08
[ 2233.643922] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 2233.643929] sdb:
[ 2233.647912] sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 2233.648468] sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

any ideas how i can get automount to work again?

c.

[Leppie]

check if you are in the fuse group, issue this command in a terminal:

cat /etc/group | grep fuse

if your username is not listed, add yourself to the group:

sudo useradd <username> fuse

also check that there's no entries in fstab for these devices.

[cnschulz]

sorry i took so long to reply...

im in that group.

btw ive just realised this happens with cd's too. if i put a cd in it will spin up then do nothing. if i issue 'mount /media/cdrom' it moints an operates normally.

bizarre.

[Leppie]

could you post your fstab?

[cnschulz]

could you post your fstab?

That was it. Thanks folks. When i was fooling around with moving my ubuntu install i pasted in a uuid on the wrong side of the comment marker!

its strange that everything else worked tho! only auto mount stopped working.

see line 2 for error.

many many thanks.

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
52366e93-4b9c-4f38-97df-fbf799115ef6#
# Use 'vol_id --uuid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda7 during installation
UUID=b05c710b-96f5-4259-adb8-44e96d6422ce / ext3 relatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda8 during installation
UUID=a788ef63-1c37-48ab-b347-18dd962e88a7 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec,utf8 0 0
#
UUID=c5c66d48-9496-4bd4-b204-c603dbb4dd8d /home ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
#
#/dev/sda5: UUID="" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"
#/dev/sda6: TYPE="swap" UUID="a95616ee-23c4-4996-859a-eec8d0978d18"
###/dev/sda7: UUID="b05c710b-96f5-4259-adb8-44e96d6422ce" TYPE="ext3"
#/dev/sda8: TYPE="swap" UUID="a788ef63-1c37-48ab-b347-18dd962e88a7"
#
#
//192.168.1.3/audio /media/audio cifs username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx,nounix,iocharset=utf 8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//192.168.1.3/video /media/video cifs username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx,nounix,iocharset=utf 8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//192.168.1.3/photo /media/photo cifs username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx,nounix,iocharset=utf 8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0
//192.168.1.3/download /media/download cifs username=xxxxx,password=xxxxx,nounix,iocharset=utf 8,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777 0 0