Thunar refuses to automount devices

Hello again!
This time I've been searching like crazy for a solution in both the wiki and the forum.
But none of the usual ways allows automounting to work in Thunar.
I have tried to plug in three different mp3-players and none of them shows up in the side panel.
Quick information:
- Installed packages: gvfs, polkit-gnome, thunar-volman, consolekit
- My user acc is a member of the storage group.
- I am not using any display manager
- Window Manager: Openbox
Samples from my system files:
/etc/rc.conf
DAEMONS=(net-auto-wireless dbus @syslog-ng @crond alsa cupsd)
~/.xinitrc:
exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch openbox-session
~/.config/openbox/autostart:
thunar --daemon &
Output from ck-list-sessions command:
Session1:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = FALSE
x11-display = ''
x11-display-device = ''
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2012-08-06T07:06:25.939413Z'
login-session-id = '1'
idle-since-hint = '2012-08-06T07:06:56.242284Z'
Session2:
unix-user = '1000'
realname = '(null)'
seat = 'Seat1'
session-type = ''
active = TRUE
x11-display = ':0'
x11-display-device = '/dev/tty7'
display-device = '/dev/tty1'
remote-host-name = ''
is-local = TRUE
on-since = '2012-08-06T07:06:26.425405Z'
login-session-id = '1'
Dbus power operations and trash is working as they should.
Last edited by palomaamatias (2012-08-07 09:41:35)

drcouzelis wrote:Are there dmesg or X log messages / errors?
dmesg returned an error message:
[ 203.043637] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
here is the complete output:
[matias@arch ~]$ dmesg | tail
[ 37.498298] fuse init (API version 7.18)
[ 203.043637] hub 2-0:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 4
[ 205.406654] usb 2-4: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 205.556157] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas
[ 205.558168] Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
[ 205.558241] scsi6 : usb-storage 2-4:1.0
[ 205.558298] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
[ 205.558300] USB Mass Storage support registered.
[ 206.561635] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 8GB v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
[ 206.562607] scsi 6:0:0:1: Direct-Access SanDisk Sansa Clip+ 8GB v01. PQ: 0 ANSI: 0
Last edited by palomaamatias (2012-08-06 17:17:19)

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