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#1 2009-04-18 05:39:13
- jeremyrainman
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HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
I'm not sure what happened, but after updating arch recently CD's, DVD's, and USB drives/sticks are not available. They "seem" to mount themselves as before, as they show up in gnome, but they are inacessible, clicking on any icon for them brings nothing up.
Sorry for the cryptic nature of this post, I'm not even sure where to begin looking in the logs for whatever error/warning might point me in the right direction. Can someone kindly tell me what I should be checking to resolve this? Thanks!
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#2 2009-04-18 07:17:31
- bwalk
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Re: HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
It's a problem with policykit. In Authorizations under org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed in implicit authorizations, you should choose 'Yes' for the active console. Unfortunatly, the dialog is somehow broken and the values can't be changed.
I solved this by editing /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy to the values above.
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#3 2009-04-18 08:07:21
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Re: HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
Might also be worth checking any error messages when starting hal manually - that helped me 
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#4 2009-04-18 12:48:36
- Raccoon1400
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Re: HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
Reinstall hal. That has solved issues like this before for me.
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#5 2009-04-18 14:52:38
- jeremyrainman
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Re: HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
It's a problem with policykit. In Authorizations under org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed in implicit authorizations, you should choose 'Yes' for the active console. Unfortunatly, the dialog is somehow broken and the values can't be changed.
I solved this by editing /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy to the values above.
my /usr/share/PolicyKit/policy/org.freedesktop.hal.storage.policy has no 'authorizations' or 'implicit authorizations' under either *.mount-fixed or *.mount-removable, or any other heading for that matter. Did I miss an install step?
I did try reinstalling (several times), no help. I did try starting HAL manually and looking for error messages, there were none.
Also, I discovered the drives are not actually mounting. i.e., I cannot list their directories under /media and see anything. They appear in gnome, but they are not actually mounting. methinks this problem is deeper than I thought.
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#6 2009-04-18 15:14:31
- jeremyrainman
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Re: HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
Using a:
$ hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
I get lots and lots and lots of verbage. HAL is running fine apparently, as it's monitoring my UPS just fine
Here's what I get when I try to open a USB drive that is attached and has an icon in gnome:
08:06:21.680 [W] ci-tracker.c:366: Error doing GetSessionForUnixProcess on ConsoleKit: org.freedesktop.ConsoleKit.Manager.GeneralError: Unable to lookup session information for process '9060'
08:06:21.680 [i] hald_dbus.c:5176: OK for method 'Mount' with signature 'ssas' on interface 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume' for UDI '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/volume_uuid_9C24133024130CC0' and execpath 'hal-storage-mount'
08:06:21.680 [i] hald_dbus.c:4062: no need to enqueue
Run started hal-storage-mount (0) (1)
! full path is '/usr/lib/hal/hal-storage-mount', program_dir is '/usr/lib/hal'
9061: XYA attempting to get lock on /media/.hal-mtab-lock
9061: XYA got lock on /media/.hal-mtab-lock
device = /dev/sdb1
invoked by uid = 1000
invoked by system bus connection = :1.193
label 'FreeAgent Drive' uuid '9C24133024130CC0'
Looking at /etc/fstab entry 'none'
/etc/fstab: device none -> none
Looking at /etc/fstab entry 'none'
/etc/fstab: device none -> none
Looking at /etc/fstab entry '/dev/cdrom'
/etc/fstab: device /dev/cdrom -> /dev/dev/cd/cdrom-6:0:0:0
Looking at /etc/fstab entry '/dev/dvd'
/etc/fstab: device /dev/dvd -> /dev/dev/cd/dvd-6:0:0:0
Looking at /etc/fstab entry '/dev/fd0'
/etc/fstab: device /dev/fd0 -> /dev/fd0
Looking at /etc/fstab entry '/dev/sda1'
/etc/fstab: device /dev/sda1 -> /dev/sda1
Looking at /etc/fstab entry '/dev/sda2'
/etc/fstab: device /dev/sda2 -> /dev/sda2
Looking at /etc/fstab entry '/dev/sda3'
/etc/fstab: device /dev/sda3 -> /dev/sda3
mount_point = 'FreeAgent Drive'
mount_fstype = ''
mount_options = 'locale=LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8;LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8;LC_TIME=en_US.utf8;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8;LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8;LC_NAME=en_US.utf8;LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8;LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8 '
trying dir /media/FreeAgent Drive
given_options[0] = 'locale=LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8;LC_NUMERIC=en_US.utf8;LC_TIME=en_US.utf8;LC_COLLATE=C;LC_MONETARY=en_US.utf8;LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8;LC_PAPER=en_US.utf8;LC_NAME=en_US.utf8;LC_ADDRESS=en_US.utf8;LC_TELEPHONE=en_US.utf8;LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.utf8;LC_IDENTIFICATION=en_US.utf8'
allowed_options[0] = 'locale='
allowed_options[1] = 'dmask='
allowed_options[2] = 'fmask='
allowed_options[3] = 'ro'
allowed_options[4] = 'sync'
allowed_options[5] = 'dirsync'
allowed_options[6] = 'noatime'
allowed_options[7] = 'nodiratime'
allowed_options[8] = 'noexec'
allowed_options[9] = 'quiet'
allowed_options[10] = 'remount'
allowed_options[11] = 'exec'
using action org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable for uid 1000, system_bus_connection :1.193
08:06:21.695 [i] device.c:1894: Removing locks from ':1.195'
08:06:21.695 [i] device.c:1894: Removing locks from ':1.194'
pid 9061: rc=1 signaled=0: /usr/lib/hal/hal-storage-mount
08:06:21.696 [i] hald_dbus.c:4086: No more methods in queue
08:06:21.696 [i] hald_dbus.c:4149: failed with 'org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy' 'org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)'
08:06:21.696 [D] hotplug.c:453: events queued = 0, events in progress = 0
08:06:21.696 [D] hotplug.c:458: Hotplug-queue empty now ... no hotplug events in progress
08:06:21.784 [i] device.c:1894: Removing locks from ':1.197'
08:06:21.788 [i] ci-tracker.c:212: Removing CICallerInfo object for :1.193
08:06:21.788 [i] device.c:1894: Removing locks from ':1.193'
[9056]: 08:06:25.013 [i] addon-storage.c:354: Checking whether device /dev/sr0 is locked on HAL
[9056]: 08:06:25.013 [i] addon-storage.c:362: ... device /dev/sr0 is not locked on HAL
08:06:51.791 [i] device.c:1894: Removing locks from ':1.196'I tried looking up org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.PermissionDeniedByPolicy and couldn't find anything. Any suggestions?
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#7 2009-04-18 15:33:44
- jeremyrainman
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Re: HAL seems to have broken after update. (SOLVED)
Silly me, I must have missed this section that was added to the wiki page when I went combing through it the other day.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … ion_Denied
That fixed it.
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