I have also noticed this effect when I switched to 6.4 from 6.3.
However, now I have switched out of GUI mode to command line mode, automount now works OK!!!!

Cheers
Bill Maidment 
 
-----Original message-----
> From:Tom Rosmond <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday 5th September 2013 1:45
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: usb wont automount
> 
> I recently upgraded my workstation from SL 5.5 to 6.4.  Now for some
> reason I an no longer getting automounts of removable USB devices, e.g.
> thumb drives.  In other words, I am not getting the expected appearance
> of a device icon on my desktop as I did with 5.5.  The devices are
> recognized in 'dmesg' output, and I can manually mount them, e.g.
> 
>      sudo mount -t vfat /dev/sdl1 /media
> 
> I have the 'autofs' service running, yet it apparently doesn't function
> as it should, and I see nothing in the logs related to it.  I have also
> compared the new 'fstab' to my 5.5 'fstab' file and see no significant
> difference.  I am running the KDE desktop, but I also ran it with SL
> 5.5.    Any suggestions or advice of a solution or explanation?
> 
> T. Rosmond
> 
>