automounting of usb disks not working how to troubleshoot

[Antonio Olivares]

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Antonio Olivares
<olivares14031 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Dear folks,

I am trying out several things and reading and I have found several sites:

http://gezeiten.org/post/2011/01/Xfce-4.8-on-BSD-flavors

http://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-questions-answers/117249-using-usb-sticks-freebsd.html

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=19410

Have not found any relevant information.  Installed automounter from
ports in sysutils/automount but still does not work.  dbus and hald
are enabled and installed.  I just like the convenience of using
automounting.  If it is not going to be working, then I am fine with
it.

Thanks,

Antonio