External drives unwilling to automatically mount [Solved]

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External drives unwilling to automatically mount [Solved]

Postby Firalus » Fri Jan 25, 2013 23:23

Hello everyone,

after last reboot, I noticed that my external and optical drives do not automatically mount. They are noticed by the PC, as seen during the boot process and the external drive can be manually mounted with:
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# mkdir /media/sdb1
# mount -t ntfs /dev/sdb1 /media/sdb1 -o defaults,umask=0


I tried searching through the internet but most solutions are for ArchLinux or Ubuntu and seem not to work with Sabayon, or at least I can't make them work :(

I've seen a solution on a Gentoo forum, which should be more applicable, but it seems not to apply to the current version of polkit, which seems to be the cause of the problem, judging by all the solutions proposed, but even knowing what causes the problem, I am too much of a newbie to try and fix it myself.

Also, while booting the system, LVM started to display "No volume groups found", which I believe wasn't happening while the drives did mount as they should.

Edit: fixed after updating polkit and udisks.
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