Automount of USB drives not working

[Chris Green]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 04:34:21PM -0500, Ric Moore wrote:
> On 02/24/2012 02:16 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 10:56:13AM +0800, Zind wrote:
> >>    Myabe you can try your USB drive on another Linux OS machine and see
> >>    whether your USB drive can be mounted automatically.
> >>
> >Yes, did that too, and it worked.
> 
> Mine used to do that, until I added a "notification" applet to my
> panel. Somehow I managed to remove it, dinking around with my panel
> bar, and I got no notifications or automount behavior until I
> re-installed it. Using 11.10 Xubuntu. Ah ...it's called "Mount
> Devices". and puts a little hard drive looking icon on the panel.
> 
> Huh, just noticed that adding "Indicator Plugin" adds a "Network
> Indicator Plugin", which is not a "system notification" in my mind.
> Huh... the icon should have an "i" on it, from the installer, but I
> keep getting two up-down arrows. Gonna have to check on that one.

Ah, now that's a clue, I have been doing things to the panel.  I'll go
and check that I have something suitable there.  Thanks.

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Chris Green