Can't Automount USB Drive - LXDE Only Installed

[Athunye]

I finally got it to mount automatically just by starting lxde from ~/.xinitrc using this line:

exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startlxde

Then I open pcmanfm, and wait for my usb device to show up in the left-side list. Just have to click on it.

[eeried]

Hello there,

I'm running Lubuntu. I haven't got a ~/.xinitrc file. Should I make one?

I want to say that I've used PCManFM on SliTaz and it is just beautiful: you can see all your drives and sticks listed in the side panel and one clic mounts any of them. Perhaps it's an older version of PCManFM, I haven't checked.

Cheers,

Edit: In fact, I started with a simple piece of advice I read in the thread: disabling the floppy in the Bios, and perhaps installing pmount did the trick. When I inserted the USB stick, a dialog box opened and asking me if I want to open the stick in the filemanager.

I launched PCManFM and in the side panel, I can see my second HDD (which I had to sudo mount in Ubuntu Jaunty), the USB stick and only one floppy icon (instead of 2 previously).

I didn't install GDM and didn't add a line to any file. Hope this good thing won't vanish on the next boot :-/

[Athunye]

You just have to create a ~/.xinitrc file if you don't have one.

Here's mine:

#!/usr/bin/bash
xrdb -merge ~/.Xdefaults # My Xdefaults sets my Mouse Cursor Theme.
feh --bg-scale ~/Pictures/Backgrounds/Aqua_Graphite.jpg
# sleep 1 && nm-applet & # I don't use network managers anymore.
sleep 1 && conky &
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startlxde

[vancheese]

My issue is a simular problem except I've a 64bit version of ubuntu which doesn't work whilst a previous 32-bit install was fine

[angelsguitar]

I realize this thread is old, but if it is of any help, the solution stated here worked for me:

This is a general Ubuntu problem that nobody seems to have any real way to fix, but I do have a workaround that did the trick in Linux Mint 9 and Ubuntu 10.04. All the other suggestions that I've read here and other threads have been useless for me.

sudo gedit /etc/modules

add this at the bottom -
hid
usbhid
usb_storage

reboot, enjoy your functioning automount.

[Fraoch]

I've installed lubuntu in a VM and I'm having the same problem as outlined in this thread - can't automount.

Well, I can automount CDs, but I can't automount shared drives. The drives have full sharing and guest permissions.

PCManFM can see the shared drive but can't mount it, giving the permissions error mentioned many times in this thread.

I found something that was not mentioned in this thread:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php...as_normal_user

which does alter the policy kit, but unfortunately it had no effect.

It's definitely a permissions problem on lubuntu - if I mount the drive as root it works fine. But I just cannot get a regular user to mount it.

Any ideas?