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nitio

Member

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 9

[Solved] HAL problems

Hello,

I have just re-installed Arch and, well, HAL does not want to work apparently. It just does not mount the DVD I put in the drive. I don't think there's anything out of the ordinary, last time I had my Arch installed this worked out of the box. And also hiberante through the gnome-power-manager but that's another problem. I'm running with testing repo enabled.

Funny fact: If I restart dbus it will automount the CD but it won't let me eject it.

First of all...

[paulo@lakfakalle ~]$ pacman -Q | grep 'hal'
hal 0.5.11rc2-2
hal-info 0.20080317-1
[paulo@lakfakalle ~]$ pacman -Q | grep 'dbus'
dbus 1.2.1-1
dbus-glib 0.74-1
dbus-python 0.82.4-1
ndesk-dbus 0.6.0-1
ndesk-dbus-glib 0.4.1-1

And for those who might ask...

[paulo@lakfakalle ~]$ groups
disk wheel dbus hal video audio optical storage camera users
[paulo@lakfakalle ~]$ groups root
root bin daemon sys adm disk wheel log optical storage
[paulo@lakfakalle ~]$

And if it may interest any of you...

#
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
#

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# LOCALIZATION
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
#
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Americas/Sao_Paulo"
KEYMAP="br-abnt2"
CONSOLEFONT="default8x16"
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# HARDWARE
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=(pcspkr)
#
# Modules to load at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a module with a ! to blacklist it
#
MODULES=(b44 mii iwl3945 snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-hwdep snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-hda-intel soundcore)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
HOSTNAME="lakfakalle"
#
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available
# interfaces.
#
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
#   - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
#   - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
#
# Note: to use DHCP, set your interface to be "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
#
lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="eth0 192.168.1.200 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255"
INTERFACES=(lo !eth0)
#
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
#   - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
#
gateway="default gw 192.168.1.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
#
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up.  These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
#   - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
#   - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
#
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network-profiles
#
#NET_PROFILES=(main)

NETWORKS=(linksys)

#
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# DAEMONS
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
#
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
#   - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
#   - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
#
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng hal network netfs @net-profiles @crond @alsa @mpd gdm)


# fix hdd spin
/sbin/hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda > /tmp/hdparm-boot

# End of file

Last edited by nitio (2008-05-01 16:01:07)

nitio

Member

Registered: 2007-08-14

Posts: 9

Re: [Solved] HAL problems

All right, my bad. I should have read the whole wiki and removed the lines that were related to the optical drive.

krazybastid

Member

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 67

Re: [Solved] HAL problems

Uh I had that same problem when I did a recent reinstall. I would hope Arch tones down on the bleeding edge updates.

JGC

Developer

Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: [Solved] HAL problems

One sidenote: You should remove yourself from the disk group, being member of the disk group is just as bad as running your desktop applications as root.