Gnome 2.28 doesn't mount Windows partitions

I upgraded Gnome to version 2.28 and got next bug. Menu "Places" doesn't contain Windows partitions. But not all of them. I can see only drive C:, but manual mounting of other drives are passing successfully. There are no records in logs about errors during mounting, from ntfs-3g driver or hal.
Thank you.

Here are some steps I've gathered from various threads and wiki pages:
1)  Gnome 2.28 uses the ntfs driver by default instead of ntfs-3g:
# ln -s /sbin/mount.ntfs-3g /sbin/mount.ntfs
2)  I login with slim.  To fix consolekit errors, use this (not necessary with GDM) in your .xinitrc:
exec ck-launch-session gnome-session
3)  Some external SATA drives are seeing problems since the latest kernel update.  Get the latest version of libatasmart from AUR to fix them:
EDIT:  the latest libatasmart has been pushed to [extra].
4)  Configure devicekit for auto-mounting ( 1- Make sure to change USER to your username, 2- Assumes you're using the wheel group for local admin access):
Create /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/61-localauthority.conf
[Local Admin]
AdminIdentities=unix-user:root;unix-group:wheel
Create  /var/lib/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/org.archlinux.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.pkla
[Local Users]
Identity=unix-user:USER
Action=org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.*
ResultAny=no
ResultInactive=no
ResultActive=yes
5)  Configure HAL/PolicyKit for ntfs-3g:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … from_Gnome
After I did all of the above steps, everything works on my system.  I hope it helps.
Last edited by testube_babies (2009-10-25 12:24:54)

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