the gnome-volume-manager daemon has to be started by hand or by configuring it. so auto mounting etc. doesn't work by default. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Portage 2.0.53_rc7 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r3, 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.14-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-30 Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre11 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.13 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.20-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -m32 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -m32 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -msse2 -msse3 -mfpmath=sse" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.UTF-8" LINGUAS="de" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X a52 aac acpi alsa apm audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 cdr crypt dri dts dvd dvdr eds emboss encode esd exif expat fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif glut gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hal idn imlib ipv6 java jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg oggvorbis openal opengl oss pam pcre pdflib perl png python quicktime readline sdl spell sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd threads tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userlocales vorbis win32codecs xine xml2 xv xvid zlib linguas_de userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
This is an upstream issue.
Running the gnome volume properties will start it, and your session should restart it each time. If you session is not restarting it, it's because you told your session to not save state anymore, and it's not gnome's fault at that point. Forcing it it start initially without running the properties would be an upstream issue, of course.
