As suggested by timetraveler
I'm re-asking this in this subforum.

Original http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...36#post3985036

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I'm not sure why "timetraveler" thinks that this is distro specific (it's not).

You could "automate" the above in fstab, but that's usually not how auto-mounting is supposed to work.

Could you tell us what DE (Desktop) or WM + Filemanager you're using?

I'm using the gnome-desktop-environment currently, but this problem exists when X is not running or I'm using a WM such as fluxbox.

Occasionally I get write access to a removable device or an error message in gnome that a device is already mounted when I plug it in. I believe my DE mounts the drive first here before whatever daemon that mounts my devices read-only can. This is entirely random, leaving me to believe my DE and the other daemon are in a loop looking for devices to mount.

I should have looked up the moving of topics before double-posting first. Lesson learned.

Sounds like a bug in gnome-volume-manager, you might check the BTS.

The bug of it sometimes mounting readable appeared when I started using GNOME. AFAIK gnome-volume-manager is doing what it supposed to do, but another daemon is also mounting things ( except as read-only ).