When I first upgraded to hardy a month or so ago I could plug in my USB flash drive and it automounted fine. I have since installed updates as they have become available and I just realized that I can no longer automount my drive. It shows up when I use lsusb and if I go to Computer I see it listed as ¨USB Drive¨ but if I attempt to open it I get the error message:

¨Unable to mount location. Can´t mount file.¨

Does anyone know why this is happening? I have also noticed that my DVD-RW drive no longer works. Well, it does not mount discs. I cannot explore the contents of the disc, but I can still use VLC to play DVDs...

This is extremely frustrating so if anyone knows of a solution please let me know. Thank you!