[solved] hal error! please help :)

ninjaprawn · 2009-11-28 14:00:11

Hi, I am having problems accessing cd/dvd's. dmesg picks the drive up fine, and pcmanfm recognises a disk in the drive. Unfortunately, as normal user, when i click to acces the disk, i get the following error as normal user.

Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.14" (uid=1000 pid=1445 comm="pcmanfm) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=1220 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))

if however, i am root, access is fine. I thought it might have something to do wit the policy kit, but i followed the wiki and no luck

thanks in advance.

Last edited by ninjaprawn (2009-12-05 11:13:02)

GraveyardPC · 2009-11-28 14:11:29

Check what groups your normal user account is under and make sure you're in both "audio" and "optical". If not, just do a "gpasswd -a USERNAME optical audio" in terminal.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD … d_packages

ninjaprawn · 2009-11-28 14:20:05

GraveyardPC wrote:

Check what groups your normal user account is under and make sure you're in both "audio" and "optical". If not, just do a "gpasswd -a USERNAME optical audio" in terminal.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DVD … d_packages

thanks for the quick reply, but i have already done that. I just did it again though just to double check, and it made no difference. Still the same error. any other ideas?

GraveyardPC · 2009-11-28 14:47:25

Is the device itself under the optical group? For instance:

matt@server:~$ ll /dev/cd
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  120 2009-10-03 22:02 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 6080 2009-11-26 11:13 ..
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2009-10-03 22:02 cdrom-3:0:0:0 -> ../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2009-10-03 22:02 cdrw-3:0:0:0 -> ../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2009-10-03 22:02 dvd-3:0:0:0 -> ../sr0
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root    6 2009-10-03 22:02 dvdrw-3:0:0:0 -> ../sr0
matt@server:~$ ll /dev/sr0
brw-rw----+ 1 root optical 11, 0 2009-10-03 22:02 /dev/sr0

EDIT: Found this, seems to fit your issue
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 70#p655870

Last edited by GraveyardPC (2009-11-28 15:00:02)

ninjaprawn · 2009-12-02 19:57:16

thanks for that mate! the link below you left did the trick!

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 70#p655870

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#1 2009-11-28 14:00:11

[solved] hal error! please help :)

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Re: [solved] hal error! please help :)

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Re: [solved] hal error! please help :)

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Re: [solved] hal error! please help :)

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Re: [solved] hal error! please help :)

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