Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

xalabin · 2011-08-22 17:42:49

Hello everyone.

I just reinstalled my system and i discovered that hal is no longer suported.
My trouble is mount automatically usb discks, sdcards, dvds, etc.

I read about it and i'm follow the steps inside
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … n-mounting

but i'm not comfortable with the fact that you need to harcode one user for enable the unmount only for this.
I'm waiting a multiuser solution, maybe whit autofs or pmount, but all i readed in arch wiki uses HAL.
Do you have some sugests?

Thanks!

Last edited by xalabin (2011-08-22 22:26:02)

anonymous_user · 2011-08-22 18:47:56

Try devmon or udiskie.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … s_Wrappers

KimTjik · 2011-08-22 20:30:03

As long as you have dbus started as a daemon, and X session started with with ck-launch-session and dbus-launch most gui file-managers seems to support auto mounting of removable devices. If you depend on cli based file-managers udiskie could be an easy solution.

You don't need special udev rules, unless you want special control, to get mounting of removable devices to work. If you use a DE it's usually taken care of. Just don't forget to start dbus.

xalabin · 2011-08-22 21:15:03

Hello.
I'm using xfce4, i launch xfce with exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4
and dbus daemon is running.
I have installed udisks and thunar.

When i launch udisks --enumerate claims "udisks-WARNING **: Couldn't enumerate devices: The permission of the setuid helper is not correct"
My user is inside groups storage and dbus.

Because this first problem i tried to use udev rules.

xalabin · 2011-08-22 22:19:47

I discovered that maybe it is a bug of btrfs betwen dbus

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=569058

or maybe not:
http://us.generation-nt.com/answer/bug- … 07441.html

xalabin · 2011-08-22 22:23:42

I solved it with

chmod a+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper

Maybe dbus package needs to be patched with this?

falconindy · 2011-08-22 23:33:29

xalabin wrote:

I solved it with
chmod a+x /usr/lib/dbus-1.0/dbus-daemon-launch-helper
Maybe dbus package needs to be patched with this?

No... you don't go randomly chmod'ing setgid executables. This is not a proper solution. Look into consolekit and udisks. The bugs you linked both deal with retaining the setgid nature of the executable on upgrade.

tlawren · 2011-08-23 01:54:09

@Xalabin - I think I'm experiencing the same problem and it started under similar circumstances (system purge and upgrade). I just sat down to look into the issue, so I will note this post and reply back if I learn something.

Also, I start xfce4 with the following line in .xinitrc.

 exec ck-launch-session startxfce4

dbus is loaded as a daemon in rc.conf, but I don't have "dbus-launch" in my .xinitrc file. Do I need it there? I think dbus-launch is running because of the following.

 $ ps -A | grep dbus
  827 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon
 1688 ?        00:00:00 dbus-launch
 1689 ?        00:00:00 dbus-daemon

EDIT: I can mount my devices from the command line using the following command. No password is requested, so clearly I'm assuming I have the permission to mount drives. Still no automount though.

 udisks --mount [device name]

Last edited by tlawren (2011-08-23 02:29:28)

kabbalah · 2011-08-23 02:49:52

Hello, install Hal, its is in Aur:

Install hal-git and all perfect.

kabbalah

xalabin · 2011-08-23 10:56:02

Hello.

I launch my wm with : exec ck-launch-session dbus-launch startxfce4
and my user is in storage group.

I believe that my problem started at the installation because when you create a subvol in btrfs this is maked only readable for root.
Now is working, but because is a very recent instalattion and i need to add more things i will reinstall all having this issue in mind, just for play.

Anonymo · 2011-08-23 13:23:20

Install devmon

.xinitrc

#!/bin/sh
#
# ~/.xinitrc
#
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)

if [ -d /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d ]; then
  for f in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/*; do
    [ -x "$f" ] && . "$f"
  done
  unset f
fi

# exec gnome-session
# exec ck-launch-session startkde
exec dbus-launch ck-launch-session xfce4-session
# ...or the Window Manager of your choice

/etc/rc.conf

DAEMONS=(dbus hwclock syslog-ng network netfs crond cupsd @alsa)

Last edited by Anonymo (2011-08-23 13:23:48)

xalabin · 2011-08-25 20:42:41

I confirmed that i have a mistake during the install because default permission in a btrfs subvolume is 700 not 755.

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#1 2011-08-22 17:42:49

Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#2 2011-08-22 18:47:56

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#3 2011-08-22 20:30:03

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#4 2011-08-22 21:15:03

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#5 2011-08-22 22:19:47

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#6 2011-08-22 22:23:42

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#7 2011-08-22 23:33:29

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#8 2011-08-23 01:54:09

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#9 2011-08-23 02:49:52

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#10 2011-08-23 10:56:02

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#11 2011-08-23 13:23:20

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

#12 2011-08-25 20:42:41

Re: Automount whitout HAL [SOLVED]

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