More trouble with automounting using hald in Gnome2-2.18.0

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

Dr. Gary E. RAFE wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 11:40 -0400, Dr. Gary E. RAFE wrote:
>>> I have a client who has a Toshiba notebook running
>>> 6.2-R and Gnome 2.16.1_2 from packages.
>>>
>>> So far, her experience has been somewhat aggravating:
>>>
>>> [1] The combination of hald/dbus/policykit would work
>>>     once or twice to automount a data CD or USB flash
>>>     drive, but would soon stop, complaining about
>>>     lack of permissions by the user, particularly when
>>>     trying to unmount the device.
>> Should be fixed in the latest version of HAL.
> 
> I was able to get the notebook from my client for a few days
> and went at it yesterday, with the goal of getting the combination
> of dbus/polkitd/hald to "just work" from the Gnome desktop.
> 
> Most of the upgraded packages for gnome2-2.18.0 came from Tinderbox;
> some from other ftp.freebsd.org sites.
> The relevant packages here are:
> 
> dbus-1.0.2_1
> policykit-0.1.20060514_3
> hal-0.5.8.20070324
> nautilus-2.18.0.1_1

Upgrade to hal-0.5.8-20070403 first.  In fact, update all ports to the 
latest first.  A lot of bugs have been fixed since the first GNOME 2.18 
package set was uploaded to MarcusCom.

> 
> With this combination, I had various levels of success
> with data CDs & USB Flash drives
> (e.g., the would all mount/umount/eject except for
> occasional errors & warnings that were not very
> helpful).
> 
> For example, "Ejecting" a data CD from the File Browser
> returns an ERROR Message Window:
> Cannot unmount volume
> You are not privileged to unmount the volume 'CDVolName'.
> Details:
> Volume mounted by uid UNKNOWN cannot be
> unmounted by uid 1002.

This is fixed in the latest HAL.

> 
> After dismissing the window, the desktop icon removes,
> the CD tray opens, and the mount is gone,
> but the mount point still in /media/CDVolName;
> Subsequent use of that CD adds an '-' to the volume name
> mount point in /media/.
> 
> Then there's the (apparently random) ERROR window:
> 	Cannot eject volume
> 
> when the CD tray is opened.
> Apparently harmless, but annoying.
> 
> After looking for patterns & thinking that this might
> be "good enough" for my (understanding) client,
> I reboot the notebook to verify that it would behave
> after rebooting...
> 
> At which point, the system stopped recognizing USB flash
> drives (except for ONE insertion out of 10),
> and complaining during data CD mounts (see above) !
> 
> At that point, I killed hald & restarted it to log;
> about 10 minutes worth (minus ACPI messages) of testing
> are posted here:
> 	http://drgerlists.googlepages.com/hald_log-20070409a.txt
> 
> I noticed when a USB flash drive was connected,
> "ps ax | grep hald" reported the process
> 	hald_addon_storage /dev/probe0
> while the hald log reports:
> 	hf-block.c:49: unable to stat /dev/probe0: No such file or directory

I've never seen probe0, and I don't know how this device got referenced. 
  USB umass devices should be /dev/da*.  Again, try with the latest 
ports, and report any problems that remain.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
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