Some update Yesterday I upgraded one of my feisty boxen to gutsy (as usb automount doesn't work on either I may as well have the newer version to see what is going on and gutsy is due soon) upon installation / upgrade yesterday I was able to mount my drive with 'pmount-hal sdb1' and read from it.
I noticed that in todays update there were some hal related packages so I decided to try my drive again, firstly no automagic but secondly (and perhaps more seriously) I now get an error when issuing the pmount command. :~$ fdisk -l Disk /dev/sdb: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x170a8ae2 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 1 38913 312568641 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) :~$ pmount-hal sdb1 process 5387: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_path (path)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1074. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. libhal.c 1122 : Couldn't allocate D-BUS message process 5387: arguments to dbus_message_new_method_call() were incorrect, assertion "_dbus_check_is_valid_path (path)" failed in file dbus-message.c line 1074. This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library. libhal.c 1122 : Couldn't allocate D-BUS message Error: given UDI is not a mountable volume Child -- Auto mount does not work for USB drive https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/102097 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs