Auto mounting in Ubuntu 12.10

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 22/11/12 15:04, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On 22 November 2012 14:53, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Since upgrading Ubuntu to 12.10 I no longer have access to USB
>> *AND* internal disks that were auto mounted in earlier releases.
>> This problem only occurs with Unity-based systems: Kubuntu works
>> fine, as does Lubuntu. Obviously I can mount them as root, but the
>> tedium of finding the appropriate UUID is less than desirable.
>
>
> Stop the automount service
>
> sudo service autofs stop
>
>
> Start it in the forground in verbose mode
>
> sudo automount -f -v
>
>
> Post the output if it's not obvious what the problem is.
>
> -- Steve

Thanks for the swift response, Steve. There is no such script (nor any 
obvious alternative) in either /etc/init, or /etc/init.d so I'm still 
snookered. Equally confusing, there is no such script on a working 
Kubuntu system.

Peter HB