On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 17:42 -0500, David C. Rankin wrote: > Listmates, > > After updates this past week or so (not sure exactly when), Arch no longer > mounts usb or CD/DVDs when inserted. What is the most likely culprit? Let me guess... You updated udev, but didn't update hal. The storage backend of your installed hal package links to libvolume-id.so, which is no longer in the udev package. You'll need the new hal package which links to libblkid from the new util-linux-ng.