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Only thing in dpkg was daily update of Chromium from PPA 2 days ago my wife logged in whilst the USB drive was still plugged in. Don't know if that was associated, but on test the USB drive didn't show up in her account either. So I created a new user account to test - the USB drive showed up in the places menu, so could be mounted by clicking. Interestingly, when I went back in to my own user account, the external drive showed up in places again. Looks like an interaction between users caused, and also cured, the problem - not sure how though. Interestingly I also noticed that the second distro partition (Debian Lenny - not USB) was missing from the Places menu before, but also showed up again after creating a new user. Many thanks for ideas. Phil On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 23:04 +0100, Simon Waters wrote: > Philip Whateley wrote: > > > > I have an external USB 1Tb drive, formatted as NTFS (but also see note > > about USB flash drives below). > > > > I am running Ubuntu 9.10 AMD64. > > > > The external drive used to automount up until two days ago. Now it > > doesn't, and as far as I know I haven't changed any settings. > > No specific help. > > But what happened two days ago? Reboot? Check the dpkg log to see if a > security update or other software applied two days ago or since previous > reboot. Did you poke anything USB or /dev related? > > Does it affect all users or just you (i.e. add a new account and see if > it works for that user). > > I assume you tried a reboot ;) > > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html