hald/xfce removable media

[Michael Rudolph]

On Sunday 13 April 2008 05:15:33 Warren Block wrote:
> Removable media in xfce used to automatically mount, at least as of a
> few weeks ago.  Now I see:
>
> Failed to mount "NIKON D40".
> org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-fixed no <-- (action, result).
>
> Has there been a configuration change?
>
> FreeBSD speedy.wonkity.com 6.3-STABLE FreeBSD 6.3-STABLE #1: Wed Apr 
> 2 12:34:32 MDT 2008
> root at speedy.wonkity.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SPEEDY  i386
>
> dbus-1.1.20         A message bus system for inter-application
> communication dbus-glib-0.74      GLib bindings for the D-BUS
> messaging system hal-0.5.11.r2_5     Hardware Abstraction Layer for
> simplifying device access policykit-0.7_5     Framework for
> controlling access to system-wide components policykit-gnome-0.7_3
> GNOME frontend to the PolicKit framework
>
> /etc/rc.conf:
>
> dbus_enable="YES"
> hald_enable="YES"
> polkitd_enable="YES"  (looks like this is obsolete now)
>
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Hello Warren

you might want to have a look at

http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3

I hope that helps.

michael