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After 1.5 hour of fighting & messing with files in /etc I finally got automounting working ;)
I've been using Slack since 4 years always mounting things manually. I'll see how it behaves day by day ...

Truthfatal : I had the same effect 10 minutes ago. It vanished after I joined to the cdrom & plugdev groups via Kuser in Kde. Hal & dbus must be seen after issuing "ps -ax" bash command.
Of course rebooting machine is compulsory after any changes in /etc files. Files : passwd, shadow, group must contain new entries from their *.new counterparts.

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Originally Posted by rworkman

Aha - I just looked into kde, and it seems that by default it doesn't show device icons on the desktop.
You can enable those in your Desktop preferences.

Finally the icon showed up with all of my drives, including my portable HD

Thanks Robby

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

The newest updates for dbus and hal were only tweaks to the init scripts for them; they should have no effect on the issue truthfatal is having.

Hm... i was talking to happybear (sorry, not to quote the previous post). Happybear's issue was related to laptop battery, which might be fixed in latest kdeutils which has been patched by Pat

Quote:

Originally Posted by rworkman

It sounds more like you have not restarted the messagebus service (or maybe messagebus service isn't even running) since you added your user to the required groups. Make sure all of the needed groups exist (messagebus - 81:81, haldaemon - 82:82, plugdev - --:83, power - --:84), then restart the messagebus service (be sure it's actually running afterwards) and restart the hald service.

I hope it's that simple, but:

Code:

root@neverwinter:~# ps ax | grep dbus

 2134 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system

 2569 ?        S      0:00 dbus-launch --autolaunch ea7d75e443915e9910364e00462dc700 --binary-syntax

 2570 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --fork --print-pid 5 --print-address 7 --session

 2676 pts/1    R+    0:00 grep dbus

root@neverwinter:~# ps ax | grep hald  

 2143 ?        Ss    0:00 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes

 2144 ?        S      0:00 hald-runner

 2150 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event1

 2153 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket

 2159 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdc (every 2 sec)

 2161 ?        S      0:00 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/hdd (every 2 sec)

 2680 pts/1    R+    0:00 grep hald

root@neverwinter:~# cat /etc/group

root@neverwinter:~# cat /etc/group | grep truthfatal

# snipped

cdrom::19:truthfatal

plugdev:x:83:truthfatal

root@neverwinter:~# cat /etc/group

# snipped

messagebus:x:81:

haldaemon:x:82:

power:x:84:

I have to go to work now, but thanks for the pointers so far :D