hald/gnome issues

[Stewart C. Russell]

Joseph Kubik wrote:
> What did you upgrade from, and to?

Just a routine Gnome/Gentoo weekly rebuild; not any class of upgrade at 
all, really

> What does /var/log/messages say when you plug the device in?

Nothing untoward:

usb-storage: device found at 3
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
   Vendor: Kingston  Model: DataTraveler 2.0  Rev: 1.04
   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
SCSI device sda: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 2007040 512-byte hdwr sectors (1028 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
  sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
usb-storage: device scan complete

> What steps do you take to manually mount the device?

Again, the usual:

  mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/USB

What's unusual is that a restart seems to have got automounting working, 
but not in a way I'd particularly like. Plugging in the USB key gives me 
a mounted entry:

/dev/sda1 on /media/STUSB2 type vfat 
(rw,nosuid,nodev,quiet,shortname=winnt,uid=1000,gid=100,umask=077,iocharset=utf8) 


Unfortunately, this has been mounted as root, so I can't unmount it as user.

What I really want is the way it used to work: unmounted devices would 
appear in my Nautilus "Computer" window. Double-clicking them would 
mount them as /media/Volume_Name, and I could unmount them with a 
right-click to the icon. No changes to the fstab were required, or wanted.

Maybe the upgrade to Gnome was a bad one ...

thanks,
  Stewart
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