Automount of USB drives not working

[Ric Moore]

On 02/25/2012 12:15 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> 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.
>

Let us all know what you find! It's usually a doozy. My mistakes often 
are! :) Ric