Gnome Nautilus - USB automount not working

Question

Nautilus does not show my USB devices in its Devices pane. Nor does it mount them automatically. Looking at the syslog, I can see that kernel registers the event when I mount a device. Obviously, gconf has all the necessary settings for Nautilus set up.

I've searched Internet for some info, tried some solutions like disabling legacy floppy in BIOS -- does not work. Appreciate any help.

Solution

Below are two links that might help if you haven't already tried these.

• https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/153678
• http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1478368&page=3

Hope these help. The second link solved my problem, but then my USB drives were showing up in Nautilus.

Comments

[JulioHM]

I'm having a similar issue on 12.04. I plug in a flash drive or external USB drive, and it just won't automount. I can see from /var/log/syslog that the device is recognized, and if I run for example gvfs-mount -d /dev/sdb1 the device magically mounts to /media/{DEVICENAME}. To me, this seems like a problem with Nautilus or Gnome not being able to run gvfs-mount when the device is plugged in.