Auto Mount not working for USB? Hald not running?

SonoranFun · 11-15-2005, 05:11 PM

When I click on Applications then Desktop Preferences and Removable Drives and Media I get the following message:

The "hald" service is required but not currently running. Enable the service and rerun this applet, or contact your system administrator. Note: You need Linux kernel 2.6 for volume management to work.

Do any of you have a clue as to how I can fix this? It's like this on all three of my Debian Net installs... PLEASE HELP!

bosewicht · 11-15-2005, 05:27 PM

to start with try
/etc/initd/hald start <- i think debian uses initd
and see if it will work. you just need to add hald to ur daemons

SonoranFun · 11-15-2005, 06:36 PM

If what you were asking me to type that in from command line I get the following...

user@Debian:~$ /etc/initd/hald start
bash: /etc/initd/hald: No such file or directory

bosewicht · 11-15-2005, 06:38 PM

take a look here
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=DBUS

did you install hal and dbus?

SonoranFun · 11-15-2005, 07:40 PM

I think the issue is that I'm still running kernal 2.4, do you think that could be it? How do upgrade and is there a lot of risk in doing it?

bosewicht · 11-15-2005, 07:50 PM

using debian? there shouldn't really be any risk. I don't really know if that would be the prob or not...there are a lot of people still using the 2.4

acraig · 05-15-2011, 02:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SonoranFun

If what you were asking me to type that in from command line I get the following...

user@Debian:~$ /etc/initd/hald start
bash: /etc/initd/hald: No such file or directory

I know I'm years late, BUT it should be

$ sudo /etc/init.d/hald restart or start