[SOLVED] External Firewire Hard drive will not mount with hald...

trist007 · 09-28-2012, 10:25 PM

Slackware 13.37 32bit

I'm trying to figure out what is causing the problem. Here is the output from /var/log/messages

Code:

Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.437535] scsi 5:0:0:0: Direct-Access     WD       2500JS External  106a PQ: 0 ANSI: 4
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.437995] sd 5:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.444608] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] 488397168 512-byte logical blocks: (250 GB/232 GiB)
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.446533] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.447790] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Cache data unavailable
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.455784] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Cache data unavailable
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.461866]  sdb: sdb1
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.470778] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Cache data unavailable
Sep 28 22:24:03 Zuse kernel: [ 1970.470793] sd 5:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI disk
Sep 28 22:24:04 Zuse dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.47" (uid=1000 pid=2630 comm="exo-mount) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=2554 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))
Sep 28 22:24:04 Zuse dbus-daemon: [system] Rejected send message, 1 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.47" (uid=1000 pid=2630 comm="exo-mount) interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member="Mount" error name="(unset)" requested_reply=0 destination="org.freedesktop.Hal" (uid=0 pid=2554 comm="/usr/sbin/hald))

-Tristan

trist007 · 09-28-2012, 10:57 PM

I added the last two lines in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf and made sure my user was a part of the plugdev group. That fixed it.

Code:

 <!-- Allow members of 'plugdev' group to mount/unmount volumes -->
  <policy group="plugdev">
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
    	   send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
    	   send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.Removable"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
    	   send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
    <allow send_destination="org.freedesktop.Hal"
    	   send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/>
    <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/>
  </policy>