Auto mounting in Ubuntu 12.10

[Colin Law]

On 22 November 2012 17:16, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb at hbsys.plus.com> wrote:
> On 22/11/12 17:02, Colin Law 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.
>>
>>
>> Can you define what you mean by auto mounted?  Exactly what used to
>> happen that is not happening any more?
>
>
> Hello Colin,
>
> the sequence is that I insert a USB memory stick and open Dolphin in Kubuntu
> and I'm presented with a list of available file systems, including the
> memory stick. Selecting this device, or any of the advertised partitions,
> mounts the partition and permits access to the contents.
>
> When using Nautilus under Unity - which I don't do very often - the mount
> operation fails with:
> Adding read ACL for uid 1000 to '/media/<username>' failed: Operation not
> supported.

That would have been useful to know at the start.  Googling for that
error message yielded [1] as the first hit.  It seems that it is a
known bug [2] and [1] includes a workaround that you can try.

I hope that is helpful.

[1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/202630/cant-mount-any-partition-acl-error
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1048059

Colin