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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

[solved]hal not mounting!

hi,

i have just upgraded, and now in pcmanfm, when i click on my usd pen or mp3 player on the left, i get an error box with no error an ok button and a red error symbol, when i press ok, another one exactly the same pops up, then when i press ok again, i get a slightly different error message! same box but with the following;

Directory doesn't exist!

any ideas??

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2009-02-11 19:09:49)

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na12

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From: /home/serbia

Registered: 2008-12-23

Posts: 752

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=64943

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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

sorry, i havent got the old hal in cache! wer can i get it from??

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ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

i have just tried a cd and the exact same happens! it is hal isnt it??

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skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

Read the HAL entry in the wiki. Also, this is been covered over and over again for days. The solution is posted at least 20 times. Please search for you answers.

ninjaprawn

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2008-01-26

Posts: 485

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

sorry for the repeat question

i followed

the hal problem: try modify /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf as root
add the following between <config version="0.1"> and </config>
Code:

<match user="$USER">
    <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
        <return result="yes"/>
    </match>
    <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
        <return result="yes" />
    </match>
    <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
        <return result="yes" />
    </match>
</match>

where $USER is your username. restart hal.

i hadnt gone down that root cos it had worked up untill now, n i didnt think a config file was causin it! sorry! thanks for the solution!

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Xinix

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Registered: 2008-03-14

Posts: 83

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

I need to insist that this is not a solution. It is a workaround. Until you can set a group=users (which didn't work for me), this is still a bug. I am surprised people accept this so easily. If you have multiple users, this is quite a drag...

biagio

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From: Florence - Italy

Registered: 2008-02-29

Posts: 49

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

If you have multiple users, this is quite a drag...

Multiple users can be defined by adding a bar (|) character in the "match user" element, example:

<match user="user1|user2">
    <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
        <return result="yes"/>
    </match>
    <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
        <return result="yes" />
    </match>
    <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
        <return result="yes" />
    </match>
</match>

http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/PolicyK … onf.5.html

Bysshe

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Registered: 2004-12-10

Posts: 271

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

This doesn't work at all for me.  I've tried everything I can find.  No luck.

And yes, the cd entries are commented in fstab.

Last edited by Bysshe (2009-03-15 18:51:07)

Bysshe

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Registered: 2004-12-10

Posts: 271

Re: [solved]hal not mounting!

Now that I uncommented the cd drive lines in fstab, it works perfectly.    I confirmed by recommenting them to break it again.   I don't know what to say, automounting has been a mess for years.