KDE - automatic mounting removable media broken?

Hi,
I have just installed Arch Linux, along with KDE unstable.
The last time I used Arch and KDE (this was several months back, I think), I remember removable media working out of the box.
However, this time when I insert a USB drive, nothing seems to happen.
I have the udisks2 package installed, but udisks is not installed.
I have not added myself to the storage group (or any other special groups) as per the recommendation on the wiki regarding systemd (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Users_and_Groups).
When I insert the USB drive, I see the following in dmesg:
[ 7849.682638] usb 2-2: new high-speed USB device number 3 using ehci_hcd
[ 7849.809054] scsi5 : usb-storage 2-2:1.0
[ 7850.813229] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Cruzer Blade 8.02 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[ 7850.816230] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 7856127 512-byte logical blocks: (4.02 GB/3.74 GiB)
[ 7850.816971] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[ 7850.816975] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 45 00 00 08
[ 7850.817593] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 7850.817597] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7850.820095] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 7850.820101] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7850.859614] sdb: sdb1
[ 7850.864851] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[ 7850.864857] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[ 7850.864862] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
Any ideas on how to get this working?
Cheers,
Victor

Hi,
I have similar problem after major system upgrade. I can no longer mount removable drives as regular user. Only root can do that.
How can I allow any user (or at least my user) to mount/umount any media with any file system?
I would like to be able to mount in KDE extrernal usb dvd with UDF media, or /dev/sdh5 with NTFS or SD card with FAT32 in usb card reader.
I used to work in KDE before upgrade. Now i'm not authorized..
[11106.331210] usb 1-1.3: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[11106.419120] usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0: Quirks match for vid 13fe pid 3600: 4000
[11106.419140] scsi7 : usb-storage 1-1.3:1.0
[11107.443529] scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB DISK 2.0 PMAP PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
[11107.900172] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 62521344 512-byte logical blocks: (32.0 GB/29.8 GiB)
[11107.901916] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[11107.901920] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 41 00 00
[11107.903720] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[11107.903729] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[11107.909408] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[11107.909412] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[11107.928787] sdb: sdb1
[11107.933764] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] No Caching mode page present
[11107.933768] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[11107.933771] sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

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