Auto mounting in Ubuntu 12.10

[Peter Hillier-Brook]

On 22/11/12 17:25, Colin Law wrote:
> 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.

Very! It's obviously not a professional solution, but on a single user 
system such as mine it's a very good temporary fix until the bug is 
properly addressed and fixed. Many thanks for your help.

Peter HB