This also affects me. I have a brand new installation of plain Xubuntu 13.10 (XFCE) with no Unity or Gnome.
Like the other commenters dmesg reports that udisks recognise the drive correctly, and I can mount it manually with udisksctrl mount -b /dev/sdb1 but it doesn't mount automatically. Not even the same drive twice in the same session. [169444.283673] usb 3-6: new high-speed USB device number 13 using xhci_hcd [169444.321253] usb 3-6: New USB device found, idVendor=0939, idProduct=0b15 [169444.321260] usb 3-6: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=1 [169444.321265] usb 3-6: Product: StorE HDD [169444.321269] usb 3-6: Manufacturer: Toshiba [169444.321273] usb 3-6: SerialNumber: 2010122931CF [169444.323003] usb-storage 3-6:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [169444.323084] scsi13 : usb-storage 3-6:1.0 [169446.491233] scsi 13:0:0:0: Direct-Access Toshiba StorE HDD 0000 PQ: 0 ANSI: 4 [169446.491653] sd 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [169446.495383] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] 625142448 512-byte logical blocks: (320 GB/298 GiB) [169446.501667] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [169446.501674] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 38 00 00 00 [169446.507951] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [169446.507959] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [169446.521256] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [169446.521265] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [169446.545609] sdb: sdb1 [169446.559319] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page found [169446.559330] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through [169446.559337] sd 13:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk chris@xenon:~/Pictures$ udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdb1 Mounted /dev/sdb1 at /media/chris/USB-HDD. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gvfs in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1241811 Title: USB disk not automatically mounted after upgrade to 13.10 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gvfs/+bug/1241811/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs