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#1 2009-07-17 23:30:25

Rognon
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Registered: 2006-10-05
Posts: 40

Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Hey there,

I've just switched back to gnome after using Xfce for a long time and I've got 2 problems which I just can't fix.

First, I've got problems with my keyboard layout. I'm using "ca variant fr" which is correctly set in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/10-keymap.fdi. When I'm in GDM, everything is fine. However, when I start my gnome session, things are pretty unpredictable. Sometime, I get an unknown layout. Some other time the layout is correct, but Alt+<arrow keys> types letters, etc. Either way, I can never get the keyboard shortcuts to switch to another workspace to work. I can correctly set them in the gnome settings, but they just don't work.

My other problem is that automount does not work for either cd/dvd and usb sticks. Here are some relevant config files:

/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!-- -*- XML -*- -->
<!DOCTYPE pkconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Configuration 1.0//EN"
"http://hal.fredesktop.org/releases/PolicyKit/1.0/config.dtd">

<!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --

<config version="0.1">
    <match user="rognon">
      <return result="yes"/>
    </match>
</config>

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf

<!DOCTYPE busconfig PUBLIC
 "-//freedesktop//DTD D-BUS Bus Configuration 1.0//EN"
 "http://www.freedesktop.org/standards/dbus/1.0/busconfig.dtd">
<busconfig>

  <!-- This configuration file specifies the required security policies
       for the HAL to work. -->

  <!-- Only root or user hal can own the HAL service -->
  <policy user="hal">
    <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
  </policy>
  <policy user="root">
    <allow own="org.freedesktop.Hal"/>
  </policy>

  <!-- Allow anyone to invoke methods on the Manager and Device interfaces -->
  <policy context="default">
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties" />

    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager"/>

    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.CPUFreq"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.DockStation"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KeyboardBacklight"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LaptopPanel"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Leds"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.LightSensor"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.SystemPowerManagement"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
           send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.WakeOnLan"/>

  </policy>

</busconfig>

/etc/hal/fdi/policy/preferences.fdi

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

When I plug in a usb stick, nothing happens. Not even an error message. I'm able to manually mount my drive though.

Thanks,
Rognon

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#2 2009-07-18 15:32:50

djszapi
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From: Cambridge, United Kingdom
Registered: 2009-06-14
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Re: Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Is the usb stick okay with other machine/OS? If not, reformat it.

http://lpapp.blogspot.com

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#3 2009-07-19 03:23:07

Vladman
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Registered: 2009-01-28
Posts: 118

Re: Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Have you checked your keyboard settings in rc.conf? Is your hal deamon running?

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#4 2009-07-19 15:03:30

Rognon
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Registered: 2006-10-05
Posts: 40

Re: Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Is the usb stick okay with other machine/OS? If not, reformat it.

It's not just with one usb stick. I've tried with 3 and none of them work (but they work on other machines). I've also forgot to mention that the drive appears in nautilus. If I right-click on it, I can select "mount", but it does nothing, not even show an error message.

Also, everything works fine with my digital camera.

Have you checked your keyboard settings in rc.conf?

Yep:

KEYMAP="cf"

Is your hal deamon running?

I've put it in the DAEMONS array in my rc.conf, so I though that it was running. However, I'm having some doubts now:

$  ps x | grep hal
 3220 ?        Sl     0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor

That's it. Nothing else.
Furthermore, if I do "/etc/rc.d/hal restart", it fails at both stopping and starting HAL. dmesg is of no use. Is there some place I could look for logs? I've looked in "/var/log" but can't find anything relevant.

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#5 2009-07-19 17:42:42

jacko
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Registered: 2007-11-23
Posts: 840

Re: Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Furthermore, if I do "/etc/rc.d/hal restart", it fails at both stopping and starting HAL. dmesg is of no use. Is there some place I could look for logs? I've looked in "/var/log" but can't find anything relevant.

The normal behavior is to run it from a terminal so you can recieve some output. If we check `man hald` we see that there is some options that will help us display some information on the daemon as it runs in the foreground.

     --daemon=yes|no
             Specify whether to run in the foreground or the background.

     --verbose=yes|no
             Enable verbose debug output.

So lets try it... as root

 hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

Last edited by jacko (2009-07-19 17:45:27)

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#6 2009-07-19 23:53:21

Rognon
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Registered: 2006-10-05
Posts: 40

Re: Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Ho, I just realized I've made a mistake. Hal is running (but automount is still not working for usb drives):

$  ps aux | grep hal
hal       2539  0.0  0.1  28260  5380 ?        Ss   19:40   0:00 /usr/sbin/hald
root      2540  0.0  0.0  15664  1248 ?        S    19:40   0:00 hald-runner
root      2568  0.0  0.0  17776  1168 ?        S    19:40   0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event12 /dev/input/event11 /dev/input/event8 /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event2 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event13 /dev/input/event16
root      2586  0.0  0.0  17772  1124 ?        S    19:40   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-leds
root      2587  0.0  0.0  17772  1176 ?        S    19:40   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch
hal       2612  0.0  0.0  15372  1056 ?        S    19:40   0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpi kernel interface /proc/acpi/event
root      2613  0.0  0.0  17780  1140 ?        S    19:40   0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec)
root      2637  0.0  0.0  17772  1116 ?        S    19:41   0:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-generic-backlight
rognon    2744  0.0  0.1  47392  3128 ?        Sl   19:41   0:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor
root      2985  0.0  0.0  17780  1132 ?        S    19:44   0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sdb (every 2 sec)

And regarding my keyboard problem, it seem that things are weirder than they seemed. After logging in, if a manually set the layout with "setxkbmap ca -variant fr", change the keyboard shortcuts that use arrows (like move to the workspace on the left) to something that does not uses an arrow (like crtl+alt+m for instance) and then set them back to their original values, it works. This happens in both metacity and compiz.

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#7 2009-07-21 21:58:08

Rognon
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Registered: 2006-10-05
Posts: 40

Re: Two gnome problems (keyboard and automount)

Jut solved my keyboard problem. Instead of using Xorg hardware autodetect, I used my properly configured xorg.conf. Could this mean that there might be a problem with xf86-input-evdev?

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