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aiss1

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Registered: 2010-04-03

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HAL can't unmount: /media/.hal-mtab missing

Hello everyone!

I am using XFCE as my DE, and every time I try to unmount an USB-drive or any other mountable drive via XFCE (HAL), I get this error: "Cannot open /media/.hal-mtab". Further research discovers that this file /media/.hal-mtab is nonexistent, although drives have been mounted. A file called .hal-mtab-lock exists in that directory.
The computer is a laptop, if that matters anything.

Here's dmesg's output when inserting a USB-drive, but atleast I don't see anything suspicious in it:

usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 7
usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 8
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi10 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 8
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
sd 10:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] 7856128 512-byte logical blocks: (4.02 GB/3.74 GiB)
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 23 00 00 00
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
 sdb: sdb1
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 10:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk

I have searched the forum, wiki and bugs, but to no avail.
I have already inserted "exec ck-launch-session" to .xinitrc.