Automounting Cameras and USB drives.

My Camera and a few USB drives would not automount but I could manually mount them with no problem. The devices would show up on the Device Notifier but when I clicked on "Open with File Manager" it just opened my home directory. So after a little digging and lots of Googling, I found this link:PolicyKit - CBLFS
At the bottom, in the configuration section:

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To allow HAL to automount removable drives such a thumbdrives, edit /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf and add the following between the <config></config> tags:

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<match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
    <return result="yes" />
</match>

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Without this you will receive an error similar to org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolic y: org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <--(action,result) when you "plug in" your thumb drive.

You then must upgrade your util-linux to the latest version or HAL automounting will fail with the following error FAT: Unrecognized mount option "uhelper=hal" or missing value.

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EDIT: After rebooting, all external drives now automount.

It may be worth noting that HAL was removed from Ubuntu as of 10.04.

Wow, I'm behind the times. What are they (Ubuntu) using for automount now?

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Originally Posted by MikeTbob

What are they (Ubuntu) using for automount now?

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According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_(software):

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As of 2009, distributions such as Ubuntu, Debian, and Fedora, and projects such as GNOME and X.org are in the process of deprecating HAL as it has "become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess". It is in the process of being merged into udev (main udev, libudev, and udev-extras) and existing udev and kernel functionality. Ubuntu version 10.04 removes HAL from the boot process.

Initially a new daemon DeviceKit was planned to replace certain aspects of HAL, but in March 2009, DeviceKit was deprecated in favor of adding the same code to udev as a package: udev-extras, and some functions have now moved to udev proper.

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"become a large monolithic unmaintainable mess".

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Enought said, I agree wholeheartedly. Thanks for the update.