Hi, all. I'm trying to get automounting working with Arch on my laptop, and I've installed thunar-volman. The trouble is, whenever I put in a CD or plug in a USB mass storage device (thumb drive, USB hard drive, etc.), it gives me a dialog like the following:

I'm guessing this means there's some config in HAL or DBus that I need to fix, but I can't even begin to figure out what file it could be in...

I've tried searching LQ and Google to no avail. It seems that either the solution is sitting right in front of me, or hardly anyone even has this problem.

I can mount the devices manually (as root), but like I said, if I put in a CD/DVD or plug in a USB storage device, or if I double-click the icon on the desktop, I get the above error.

I've tried adding myself to the groups optical, disk, storage, and power, but I still get the same thing. Any ideas?

Problem solved.

It was just a matter of changing:

to:

in my .xinitrc. Everything automatically mounts/unmounts gracefully now.

Thanks for sharing the solution