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JaDa

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From: Sun City, CA (native German)

Registered: 2007-04-06

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[***Solved***] Hal

 Cannot obtain lock on /media/.hal-mtab

I tried today my camera docking station. It was working fine before and now I get this error. I tried my USB Stick and got the same error.

any ideas for a work around or fix this problem?

Last edited by JaDa (2007-08-08 00:20:42)

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luca

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Re: [***Solved***] Hal

Hi JaDa,
probably there is a lock file in /media folder; check if exist this file:

.hal-mtab-lock

and try to delete it

JaDa

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Re: [***Solved***] Hal

The answer found in the Archlinux Wiki
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL

USB sticks and drives do not automount correctly

If you are experiencing problems with automounting usb sticks and/or drives, but do not have problems with automounting CDs or DVDs, and if you are able to manually mount the USB device in question, then you should create the file "preferences.fdi" in the folder /etc/hal/fdi/policy and paste the following line into the file

<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>

Problem solved. But I have no idea why it was happened and what was the problem. It was working fine before. Anyway, now it works and this is important

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