"Volume management not supported" error when attempting to run Removable Drives and Media

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:11 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> Hello,
> I've recently upgraded this machine to gnome2-2.16.1_2 (as of yesterday), and I noticed that
> I get the following error message when attempting to use the menu program Removable Drives
> and Media:
> 
> Volume management not supported
> 
> The "hald" service is required but not currently running. Enable the service and rerun this
> application, or contact your system administrator.
> 
> Note: You need sysutils/hal installed for volume management to work.
> 
> However, checking for what the message informs me I need to have running, here's what I've
> got installed and running at the time the error was displayed:
> 
> # ps waux | grep -i dbus
> stacey      808  0.0  0.1  2060  1524  ??  Is   Mon09pm   0:00.11 /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon
> --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6
> stacey      807  0.0  0.1  2500  1288  v0  I    Mon09pm   0:00.00 dbus-launch
> --exit-with-session gnome-session
> # ps waux | grep -i hal
> haldaemon   623  0.0  0.3  4572  2924  ??  Ss   Mon09pm   0:25.55 /usr/local/sbin/hald
> root        624  0.0  0.2  3772  2016  ??  I    Mon09pm   0:00.05 hald-runner
> root        640  0.0  0.1  2860  1392  ??  S    Mon09pm   0:51.84 hald-addon-storage:
> /dev/acd0 (hald-addon-storage)
> root        643  0.0  0.1  2860  1332  ??  S    Mon09pm   0:28.22 hald-addon-storage:
> /dev/sa0 (hald-addon-storage)
> root      75329  0.0  0.3  4940  2804  p3  RV+   9:59pm   0:00.00 grep -i hal (csh)
> # 

Neither polkitd nor dbus-daemon (in system mode) are running.  Kill off
the hald process, then run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start.  You should
see a dbus-daemon process running with a --system argument.  If not,
not, you may have a problem with dbus.  You can try
running /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork and see if you get
any errors.

If dbus-daemon starts up correctly, start up polkitd
with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/polkitd start.  If that works, then start hald.
When everything is up, you should be able to run lshal, and actually see
a device list.

Joe

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