automounting of usb disks not working how to troubleshoot

[Antonio Olivares]

Dear folks,

I have recently successfully updated an amd 64 bit machine from 8.1 to
8.2 release and reinstalled most of the previously installed ports.
Now, I tried to use my usb disk and it is not automounting :(  I like
the convenience of automounting and I checked hal and dbus and they
are both enabled and to be safe I deinstalled and installed them again
and still does not automount.

ugen5.2: <HP> at usbus5
umass0: <HP c310w, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2> on usbus5
umass0:  SCSI over Bulk-Only; quirks = 0x0000
umass0:2:0:-1: Attached to scbus2
da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 scbus2 target 0 lun 0
da0: <HP c310w 1.00> Removable Direct Access SCSI-2 device
da0: 40.000MB/s transfers
da0: 3819MB (7823296 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 486C)


[olivares at grullahighschool ~]$ ls /media/.hal-mtab
/media/.hal-mtab

[olivares at grullahighschool ~]$ cat /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->

<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.freedesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">

<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format -->

<config version="0.1">
	<define_admin_auth group="operator"/>
	  <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
 	    <return result="yes"/>
	  </match>
     	  <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed">
	    <return result="yes"/>
	  </match>
	  <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.eject">
 	    <return result="yes"/>
	  </match>
</config>

Thank you for any pointers/advice/suggestions.

Regards,

Antonio