Problem with Slackware current KDE4 and HAL I guess
 

Dear all,

Another thread about hal/automount, but I didn't find any solutions in other threads.

What's the matter:
I installed my brand new Slack 12.1 upgrade to current then installed KDE4.1.
Until then no problem neither some KDE4 features are really slow, but that's not the subject.

The problem is that it is impossible to get automount works neither in KDE4 or XFCE.

All seems OK, hal is running well, my user is declared in all needed groups (cdrom, plugdev,video, audio and so on), but impossible to get an USBkey or a CDROM automount...

groups output:
users floppy audio video cdrom plugdev power scanner

ps aux| grep hal gives:
82 2952 0.0 0.1 5748 3608 ? Ss 11:01 0:01 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes
root 2953 0.0 0.0 3164 1044 ? S 11:01 0:00 hald-runner
root 2957 0.0 0.0 3260 1052 ? S 11:01 0:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event1 /dev/input/event7 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event5
82 2965 0.0 0.0 2220 984 ? S 11:01 0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket
root 8225 0.0 0.0 2244 796 pts/0 S+ 11:57 0:00 grep hal

dmesg gives concerning inserting usbkey:
scsi 7:0:0:0: Direct-Access USB BAR 2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
ready
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 256000 512-byte hardware sectors (131 MB)
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] 256000 512-byte hardware sectors (131 MB)
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: sdb1
sd 7:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 7:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

If you have any idea...

thanks

Solved by a downgrade of the system in 12.1 state and not current anymore. And it works perfectly (even if KDE4 still slow)

It was enough to downgrade hal - the package from current has well known bug.

What well-known bug?
I run slackware-current with KDE 4.1.2 and automounting removable devices works without problem.

Eric

The 'problem' is likely that you didn't install the now-essential parted package if you want to use HAL from -current. From the ChangeLog:

Damn,:newbie: error. You're not far from the truth, I do not read the changelog when I perform the upgrade.
I read it for major release but not for an upgrade with current (since my first slack installation with the 10.0, it's the first time I have problem with the chnagelog ...)

Thanks for the information!

It seems i shall write "I will read the changelog carefully" hundred times on the blackboard ;) Thanks guys.