problems with hal and removable media

[Brian Gruber]

--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:08 -0800, Brian Gruber
> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Like I guess a number of others, I've been having
> > problems with removable media and hal.
> > 
> > I've tried both a USB flash drive and a CD,
> neither
> > work. Mounting them in nautilus, the flash drive
> just
> > gives a message saying "cannot mount volume" while
> the
> > CD tells me I'm "not privileged." 

...
> 
> Try running hald in debugging mode:
> 
> /usr/local/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
> 
> Then repeat the steps, and collect the output on the
> console.  Also, be
> sure you've followed all of the steps at
> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome2/docs/faq2.html#q19 .
> 
> Joe
> 

This revealed that the problem was a lack of a /media
directory (this is FreeBSD 6.1... I see that it's been
added to the standard hier for 6.2). I also did need
to  remove the cd drives from /etc/fstab for it to
work.

thanks,
/brian


 
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