Error Mounting External USB Drives

Carlwill · 2008-10-21 12:58:48

Fresh Arch 64 installation and everything looks and works fine however when I plugged in my external USB drive into my machine, I get the following errors:

Does not appear to matter if they're ext3 or fat.

creslin · 2008-10-21 13:16:25

HAL Initial Configuration

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Last edited by creslin (2008-10-21 13:16:42)

Carlwill · 2008-10-21 13:46:37

creslin wrote:

HAL Initial Configuration

I had 'hal' listed as a daemon in rc.conf however I did not appear to have hal installed for whatever reason (or had an older version)...once I installed it, I then noticed I was unable to follow the wiki since the daemon fails to start...

[root@tunafish ~]# pacman -S hal
warning: hal-0.5.11-4 is up to date -- reinstalling
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...

Targets (1): hal-0.5.11-4  

Total Download Size:    0.00 MB
Total Installed Size:   1.84 MB

Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
checking package integrity...
(1/1) checking for file conflicts                   [#####################] 100%
(1/1) upgrading hal                                 [#####################] 100%
[root@tunafish ~]# /etc/rc.d/hal start
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                   [FAIL] 
[root@tunafish ~]# /etc/rc.d/hal stop
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                                   [FAIL] 
[root@tunafish ~]# /etc/rc.d/hal start
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                   [FAIL]

Last edited by Carlwill (2008-10-21 13:47:24)

creslin · 2008-10-21 13:52:19

Based on the original post and the output of pacman there ("-- reinstalling"), hal was already installed. The reason it fails to start is because HAL is already running. "/etc/rc.d/hal restart" should succeed.

This was the problematic section:

For D-Bus and HAL to be of any practical use, local user accounts should be members of the following groups: optical and storage. To achieve this, open a terminal and type the following commands as root:
# gpasswd -a username optical
# gpasswd -a username storage
Replace username with your actual username (e.g. johndoe).
For those group changes to take effect, you have to completely logout and login again.

Last edited by creslin (2008-10-21 15:51:24)

Carlwill · 2008-10-21 14:05:52

creslin wrote:

Based on the original post and the output of pacman there ("-- reinstalling"), hal was already installed. The reason it fails to start is because HAL is already running. "/etc/rc.d/hal restart" should succeed.

I appear to have a more serious problem...

[root@tunafish ~]# /etc/rc.d/hal restart
:: Stopping Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                                                                                           [FAIL] 
:: Starting Hardware Abstraction Layer                                                                                                                                           [FAIL]

creslin · 2008-10-21 14:10:46

HAL was already working properly in your first post - you just didn't give yourself proper access. Add yourself to the 2 groups in the quote and reboot.

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Error Mounting External USB Drives

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Re: Error Mounting External USB Drives

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