Automagical mounting no longer working

[CB]

On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 08:24 +1000, CB wrote:

> 
> I'm also interested in this as I my external firewire drive certainly
> doesn't mount itself. In fact I had no idea it was supposed to: I've
> always just manually mounted it when needed.
> 
> Can anyone point to any references to how this is supposed to work,
what
> if anything configures it, etc?
> 
> 

I haven't managed to find out much about this in my own researches, so
I'd still be interested if anyone knows how this works, in particular:

- are external (usb/firewire) drives supposed to be automatically
mounted under /media by default?

- if so, why might it be that mine aren't, until I've run
pmount /dev/sdaX once (which I have to do after each reboot).

- does the automounting only happen when someone is logged into gnome?