New 10.2 install

rturney · 03-25-2007, 11:18 AM

I did a new install of openSUSE 10.2 with KDE and then enabled multimedia from the instructions found here:
http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60

All the multimedia is working. Then I wanted to restore some files I had saved to a USB Flash Drive. When I inserted the drive into the USB port, I got the familiar Konqueror dialog "A new medium has been detected - What do you want to do?" When I select "Open in new window I get the following:

Quote:

A security policy in place prevents this sender from sending this message to this recipient,see message bus configuration file (rejected message had interface "org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume" member "Mount" error name "(unset)" destination "org.freedesktop.Hal")

WTF is this! I have been using SUSE for a long time and never had any problems with USB flash drives until this new installation.

Any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks

Unknown_User · 03-25-2007, 04:20 PM

Do you get the same error when you log in as another user, especially root?

It could be that you have some changes in your /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow files which are restricting the ability of the USB module to communicate via the MB daemon on a user basis.

Alternatively etc/dbus-1/system.conf and /etc/dbus-1/session.conf may have been changed.

Using the 'Hacking Suse 10.2' site you put some serious trust in the software at the other end. By using YaST (and therefore as root) and linking directly to sites which you have declared trustworthy you have opened your system to anything that they want to put on it. The sources look ok but......

rturney · 03-25-2007, 06:47 PM

The error message seems to be worded strangely. Do you think I've been hacked?

tytower · 03-26-2007, 12:46 AM

Ohh mate you are so far hacked your machine will feature in the next NASA broadcast -UHO

Unknown_User · 03-26-2007, 05:28 AM

I don't know if tytower has seen this before and knows something that I dont but I'm not sure that you have been hacked as, having reviewed the sites, they all seem to be reputable. It is more likely that you are experiencing an issue that one of the 'legitimate' changes has caused.

The message isn't so strange. It simply says that KDE (org.freedesktop.hal) can't talk to the USB module because of a permissions type issue.

Have you tried logging in as root and inserting the USB drive? If it isn't a session issue then another user such as root may work. If it does then you need to change the dbus settings for the problem user(s).

If it fails for every user then it may well be session configuration.

The bottom line is, how much time do you want to spend sorting this out? Can you reinstall without too much pain?

rturney · 03-26-2007, 07:02 PM

I have nothing invested in this new install and can easily re-do it. I am currently on FC6 but will wrap up tonight or tomorrow and put the new SUSE 10.2 HDD back in, log in as root and try to mount the USB flash drive. I'll post the results.

rturney · 04-09-2007, 01:50 AM

I reinstalled 10.2 before trying the suggestion to login as root and try the flash drive. Sorry for the missed opportunity to learn if that was the problem. But the new install works great and flash drives mount easily as regular user. This time, during the user set up, I didn't import my user settings from a previous install, if that makes any sense. This time I created the user from scratch. That seems to be the only difference. I've tried many distros but keep coming back to SUSE. Aside from this apparent fluke, the only real problems I've had have been related to Zen. Everything else seems to work great. SUSE is my favorite. I also used the multimedia guide I mentioned in the first post in this thread with great results:
http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/60