Hi, I'm running Slackware 14 x86 with Xfce 4.10 and I noticed that with a USB portable drive that I have 3 partitions on, Fat32, NTFS, Ext4, it has only once automounted the 3 paritions, now it randomly automounts them, meaning one time it will automount ntfs and fat32, next time it will automount ext4 and ntfs and it just goes around randomly automounting a different 2 each time... I have another usb portable drive with just one partition on it, NTFS, and it will always automount it. So it seems like this is working ok on a drive with a single partition, but not several... I don't really know at this point in time what logs you'd like me to submit, but as soon as I get a reply, I'll submit whatever is needed... I like having all 3 partions, because I use NTFS for Windows and FAt32 on a playstation3, so it makes it nice to have one drive like this when I'm in Slack, copying to those partitions when I'm using those systems... I hope someone has a solution for this problem I can fix... THANKS
I am having the same problem with Xubuntu 12.10 (which, of course, comes with XFCE 4.10).
I believe that this is a timing problem. thunar-volman takes a sysfs path (not syfs as in one thunar-volman message) and looks it up using GVolume. However, GVolume may not have finished doing its work for the partition, so there is no volume to grab and thunar-volman silently ignores the drive partition. The right way to fix this is, I think, to have thunar-volman do whatever the desktop is doing (maybe thunar itself does the same thing). Having thunar-volman work the same way as the desktop could also result in already-plugged-in devices being appropriately mounted, which was another request. By the way, the documentation for thunar-volman still refers to HAL.
See bug 9193 for more information.
Closing this because of age, and the issue is perhaps covered by the other bug.