Unable to automount flash drives in Mint 9

[exvagabond]

Hello. I recently installed Mint 9 Gnome onto my desktop. I am having a problem where I cannot automount usb flash drives. Previously the desktop ran Mint 6 XFCE and did not have this problem. I have tried several flash drives, all without success. These same flash drives do automount on my Mint 8 Gnome laptop. The flash drives use FAT32.

I have look through the forum for solutions, and was unable to find any that applied. The following are links I tried:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.p ... 92&start=0
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=58824
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=40844

I am able to mount flash drives using `mount' from the command line. However, I started using Linux Mint so that I could avoid such hassles. I know that I could add a line to /etc/fstab to make specific flash drives automount, but this would not solve the general problem.

When I insert a flash drive into the computer, I do know that it shows up:

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> lsusb
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 046d:c00c Logitech, Inc. Optical Wheel Mouse
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 413c:2003 Dell Computer Corp. Keyboard
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 029: ID 0781:5406 SanDisk Corp. Cruzer Micro 1/2/4GB Flash Drive
Bus 001 Device 027: ID 0424:2514 Standard Microsystems Corp. 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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> tail /var/log/messages
Dec  3 10:22:30 user-desktop kernel: [1716593.480028] usb 1-6: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 29
Dec  3 10:22:30 user-desktop kernel: [1716593.613001] usb 1-6: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Dec  3 10:22:30 user-desktop kernel: [1716593.613685] scsi16 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.612645] scsi 16:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer           8.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.613006] scsi 16:0:0:1: CD-ROM            SanDisk  Cruzer           8.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.614193] sd 16:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.619496] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] 15704063 512-byte logical blocks: (8.04 GB/7.48 GiB)
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.620123] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.621506] sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 48x/48x tray
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.625179] sr 16:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 5
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.630002]  sdb: sdb1
Dec  3 10:22:35 user-desktop kernel: [1716598.633879] sd 16:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

As mentioned in a forum post, I do have the usb drivers active:

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> lsmod | grep usb
usb_storage            39425  0 
usbhid                 36110  0 
hid                    67032  1 usbhid

Is there something that I am missing? Any ideas as to why may be wrong?

Thank you.

[Plorniortus]

Does this help?
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=61093

[exvagabond]

Thanks for the link. I took a look, and the setting for media_automount in gconf-editor was checked. But, I found that when I unchecked it then checked it again, automount started to work. Odd, but I will take it.

Thanks again!