[solved] hal won't mount volumes after update

z.s.tar.gz · 2009-11-11 00:33:31

Every time I try to mount it, hal gives me an error:

Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.12" (uid=1000 pid=3528 comm="pcmanfm) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=3228 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))

Followed by:

Directory doesn't exist!

I really don't know what the deal is, and google doesn't turn up much of anything.

Edit: This is for all drives not mounted at boot, same error.
Drives can be manually mounted with no problems.

Edit: This happens regardless of file manager used.

Solution: In my case I needed ck-launch-session added to my ~/.xinitrc for mounting to work. So, this:

exec openbox-session

Became this:

exec ck-launch-session openbox-session

If this doesn't work for you, following the instructions on the hal wiki page as seen in anonymous_user's post (#11) most likely will.

Last edited by z.s.tar.gz (2009-11-12 12:32:57)

z.s.tar.gz · 2009-11-11 01:49:52

Hmm, no such problem exists when I use gnome as opposed to openbox. Either it's something to do with gnome or gdm then.

jarryson · 2009-11-11 02:41:29

i am using xfce4, thunar can mount removeable volumes but nautilus can't. i add a patch to make thunar to treat locale volume as removeable volumes, and thunar can mount and umount locale volumes.

seems gvfs didn't work fine. i already use ck-launch-session to launch xfce4.

mounting volumes is really complicated.

skottish · 2009-11-11 03:42:21

I'm seeing this to and I don't use ck-launch-session to get into openbox. Searching for the error is a major pain unless one wants to read a bunch of practically unrelated posts for OpenSuse about pmount. Well, lets find a solution. There's about to be 100 identical posts on this subject.

beepressure · 2009-11-11 03:54:57

Getting the exact same error when trying to mount usb drives in thunar. I am using fluxbox. Some people are telling my policykit is the problem... Downgraded because i need it to work right now.

skottish · 2009-11-11 03:58:29

I wonder if this means that polkit has replaced policykit now?

--EDIT--

Yes it did. I don't know if this is the proper solution, but the rules are in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf. Follow the example of root towards the bottom to allow privileges for individual users.

*** Would someone let me know if this is the proper solution please ***

simongmzlj · 2009-11-11 04:37:28

I had this problem to (running Xfce).

I fixed it by removing policykit from my machine and restarting. The new version of hal drops policykit as a dependency. I don't know whats the reasoning behind this, as hal doesn't seem to support polkit integration (at least there is no compile flag for it). So policykit now seems to interfere with the new hal package.

Edit: Spelling

Last edited by simongmzlj (2009-11-11 04:38:27)

skottish · 2009-11-11 04:40:07

simongmzlj wrote:

I had this problem to (running Xfce).
I fixed it by removing policykit from my machine and restarting. The new version of hal drops policykit as a dependency. I don't know whats the reasoning behind this, as hal doesn't seem to support polkit integration (at least there is no compile flag for it). So policykit now seems to interfere with the new hal package.
Edit: Spelling

hal requires consolekit and polkit is required by it. How the disable consolekit integration bit works, I don't understand.

simongmzlj · 2009-11-11 04:42:12

My above dissertation only holds assuming polkit needs to be integrated into hal. It be nice if it didn't

simongmzlj · 2009-11-11 04:45:17

skottish wrote:

simongmzlj wrote:
I had this problem to (running Xfce).
I fixed it by removing policykit from my machine and restarting. The new version of hal drops policykit as a dependency. I don't know whats the reasoning behind this, as hal doesn't seem to support polkit integration (at least there is no compile flag for it). So policykit now seems to interfere with the new hal package.
Edit: Spelling
hal requires consolekit and polkit is required by it. How the disable consolekit integration bit works I don't understand.

You can disable consolekit by editing the PKGBUILD:

--disable-console-kit --disable-policy-kit --disable-acl-management

EDIT: When building the package from scratch, it seems --enable-consolekit needs --enable-policykit, i might be wrong
EDIT: I was wrong

Last edited by simongmzlj (2009-11-11 04:48:26)

anonymous_user · 2009-11-11 06:04:39

What I did was follow step two in the HAL wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … _Configure

I edited the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf file and added the part about storage and power users. No more error when trying to mount my usb disk.

Last edited by anonymous_user (2009-11-11 06:05:02)

tzervo · 2009-11-11 09:18:23

I also had similar problems with halevt after updating hal. I copied the root policies in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf for user ""halevt", like skottish advised. This solved the issue.

sand_man · 2009-11-11 11:06:02

The same thing happened to me with thunar until I installed thunar-volman. The funny thing is, why didn't I need it installed before?

grey · 2009-11-11 11:26:35

So hal now depends on consolekit, but is compiled with --disable-console-kit? Are we sure this is intentional? There isn't even anything on the arch-dev-public mailing list.

Edit: Ok, it was intentional. From the svn repo:

upgpkg: hal 0.5.13-3
Disable ACL management
Disable consolekit support
Disable policykit suport
Switch to at_console rules instead of using policykit
Add some patched from fedora
revert ssb removal, new versions of networkmanager have fixes for this

Last edited by grey (2009-11-11 11:34:38)

z.s.tar.gz · 2009-11-11 12:12:01

So I believe the problem with me was that I wasn't using ck-launch-session to get into openbox, however the HAL wiki does make sense as to why this would be happening to people who did.

I'm going to confirm for sure ck-lauch-session was my problem before I mark as solved.

edit: ck-launch-session solves the original problem in my case. Marking as solved.

Last edited by z.s.tar.gz (2009-11-11 12:20:05)

1LordAnubis · 2009-11-11 23:46:14

anonymous_user wrote:

What I did was follow step two in the HAL wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … _Configure
I edited the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf file and added the part about storage and power users. No more error when trying to mount my usb disk.

Thank You, This worked for me as well

MartinZ · 2009-11-12 00:48:31

anonymous_user wrote:

What I did was follow step two in the HAL wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … _Configure
I edited the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf file and added the part about storage and power users. No more error when trying to mount my usb disk.

Thanks a lot, this fixed here too. It think that lines should be make default since they're crucial for (at least) thunar to be able to see devices.

pichulines · 2009-11-12 09:16:12

ck-launch-session worked for me too. Thanks.

For those who don't know how to use it, edit .xinitrc and change:

exec openbox-session

for:

ck-launch-session openbox-session

Last edited by pichulines (2009-11-12 09:16:52)

z.s.tar.gz · 2009-11-12 12:33:13

Added that to the original post.

damian · 2009-11-14 09:54:36

I use

x4:4:once:/bin/su dmn -l -c "/bin/bash --login -c '/usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/startlxde'"

in /etc/inittab, so I have to change last line in /usr/bin/startlxde:

exec ck-launch-session /usr/bin/lxsession -s LXDE

Works

xsoul · 2009-11-14 10:57:21

anonymous_user wrote:

What I did was follow step two in the HAL wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … _Configure
I edited the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf file and added the part about storage and power users. No more error when trying to mount my usb disk.

i'm using pcmanfm and above solved my problem too. thx!

jaux · 2009-11-20 14:20:29

xsoul wrote:

anonymous_user wrote:
What I did was follow step two in the HAL wiki:
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL … _Configure
I edited the /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf file and added the part about storage and power users. No more error when trying to mount my usb disk.
i'm using pcmanfm and above solved my problem too. thx!

great, that works for me, too! thx!

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