Bug#534843: nautilus: Cannot prevent automouting of usb media

[ael]

Package: nautilus
Version: 2.26.3-1
Severity: normal


I can no longer configure nautilus to avoid it auto-mounting usb sticks.
For me, auto-mounting is a security issue. Also the mount is in the wrong place
from my point of view. Further, because I do not expect media to be mounted
without an explicit command, I remove the stick and then need an fsck on the
 next mount.

In short, I expect to be able to configure auto-mounting. The only way I have 
found is to remove gnome-mount, and then nautilus complains:

Unable to mount stick: Failed to execute child process "gnome-mount" (No such file or directory)

I had used the main gnome control set to no auto mount, used gconf-editor to
 search for a gnome-mount configuration option (nothing there) and, of
course, searched the nautilus preferences for a suitable setting. 

This may not be a nautilus bug, but it is directly involved. Stopping
nautilus prevents the annoying automounts which as above seems to be because
it insists on calling gnome-mount. 

Also annoying is that gnome-mount claims to be configurable via Gconf, but
gconf-editor doesn't seem to find anything.

It is probably obvious that I am very much a novice in the gnome-area...

In passing, I see that gnome-mount is only recommended, so that does not seem
to accord with it being called, apparently unconditionally.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.30 (PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages nautilus depends on:
ii  desktop-file-utils          0.15-2       Utilities for .desktop files
ii  gvfs                        1.2.2-2      userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  libatk1.0-0                 1.26.0-1     The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libbeagle1                  0.3.9-1      library for accessing beagle using
ii  libc6                       2.9-12       GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                   1.8.6-2+b1   The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2            0.80-4       simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexempi3                  2.1.0-3      library to parse XMP metadata (Lib
ii  libexif12                   0.6.17-1     library to parse EXIF files
ii  libgail18                   2.16.1-2     GNOME Accessibility Implementation
ii  libgconf2-4                 2.26.2-1     GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                2.20.1-2     The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-desktop-2-11       2.26.1-1     Utility library for loading .deskt
ii  libgtk2.0-0                 2.16.1-2     The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                     2:1.0.5-1    X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libnautilus-extension1      2.26.3-1     libraries for nautilus components 
ii  libpango1.0-0               1.24.0-3+b1  Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libselinux1                 2.0.71-1     SELinux shared libraries
ii  libsm6                      2:1.1.0-2    X11 Session Management library
ii  libtrackerclient0           0.6.95-1     metadata database, indexer and sea
ii  libunique-1.0-0             1.0.8-1      Library for writing single instanc
ii  libx11-6                    2:1.2.1-1    X11 client-side library
ii  libxml2                     2.7.3.dfsg-1 GNOME XML library
ii  libxrender1                 1:0.9.4-2    X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  nautilus-data               2.26.3-1     data files for nautilus
ii  shared-mime-info            0.60-2       FreeDesktop.org shared MIME databa

Versions of packages nautilus recommends:
ii  app-install-dat 2009.06.06               Application Installer Data Files
ii  consolekit      0.3.0-2                  framework for defining and trackin
ii  desktop-base    5.0.5                    common files for the Debian Deskto
ii  eject           2.1.5+deb1+cvs20081104-6 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
pn  gnome-mount     <none>                   (no description available)
ii  gvfs-backends   1.2.2-2                  userspace virtual filesystem - bac
ii  librsvg2-common 2.26.0-1                 SAX-based renderer library for SVG
pn  nautilus-cd-bur <none>                   (no description available)
ii  synaptic        0.62.6                   Graphical package manager

Versions of packages nautilus suggests:
ii  eog                           2.26.2-1   Eye of GNOME graphics viewer progr
ii  evince [pdf-viewer]           2.26.1-2   Document (postscript, pdf) viewer
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]               1:3.6.7-1  PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  kghostview [pdf-viewer]       4:3.5.9-3  PostScript viewer for KDE
ii  kpdf [pdf-viewer]             4:3.5.9-3  PDF viewer for KDE
ii  mpg123 [mp3-decoder]          1.7.2-3    MPEG layer 1/2/3 audio player
ii  mpg321 [mp3-decoder]          0.2.10.6   mpg123 clone that doesn't use floa
ii  okular [pdf-viewer]           4:4.2.2-2  document viewer for KDE 4
ii  totem                         2.26.2-1   A simple media player for the GNOM
pn  tracker                       <none>     (no description available)
ii  vlc [mp3-decoder]             0.9.9a-3   multimedia player and streamer
ii  vlc-nox [mp3-decoder]         0.9.9a-3   multimedia player and streamer (wi
ii  xdg-user-dirs                 0.10-1     tool to manage well known user dir
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-viewer]      3.02-1.4   Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  xpdf-utils [pdf-viewer]       3.02-1.4   Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

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