Slackware 12, HAL automount

rworkman · 10-18-2007, 10:42 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ronty

I too am having problems with mounting a cd or dvd.

/dev/cd-rw /mnt/cd-rw iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/dvd-rom /mnt/dvd-rom iso9660 noauto,user,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0

When I try to mount a cd I get the same reply even if I log in as root.

I have added myself to plugdev still nothing

A security policy in place prevents this sender form 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")

Don't know if I have put this reply in the right place...my first post

Did you read the sticky thread titled "12.0 and HAL" yet?
The problem here should be obvious after reading that thread.

Code:

Note that HAL will honor settings in /etc/fstab if a device is 
present there, so you could technically have removable devices 
defined in /etc/fstab, but if the fstab settings do not allow
normal users to mount them (with the "user" or "users" option), 
then HAL/dbus will not allow them to be mounted either.

See that "owner" option in your cdrw drive? Are you the *owner* of the device?
If not (and, NO, don't change the ownership), then it's not going to work,and that's exactly as expected.

The most aggravating thing about this situation is: that fstab line wouldn't have allowed normal users to mount the device in 11.0 either (without HAL), so NOTHING has changed. This is a misconfiguration by the admin, regardless of whether HAL is present or not, so it just ticks me off for HAL to get blamed for it.

zoran119 · 02-07-2008, 03:09 AM

OK, I have followed the instructions on post #15 of this thread and got the USB storage to be automatically mounted. The cdrom does not work tho. Error:

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").

I get this even if I login as root. I cannot tell from the messages above, is this supposed not to work?

rworkman · 02-07-2008, 09:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zoran119

OK, I have followed the instructions on post #15 of this thread and got the USB storage to be automatically mounted. The cdrom does not work tho. Error:

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").

I get this even if I login as root. I cannot tell from the messages above, is this supposed not to work?

Post #15 is a "solution" in search of a problem.
Undo anything you've done from that post, and then read the sticky thread at the top of the forum (the one titled "12.0 and HAL"). Post #31 in this thread has details.

zoran119 · 02-08-2008, 01:58 AM

Thank you for your help, but please explain a bit more. I have removed the vsupdfstab as an attempt to undo the post 15. I'm just not sure were both /etc/rc.d/rc.hald and /etc/rc.d/rc.messagebus set not to be executable before I changed them.

So, I want to do two things: 1. mount a usb drive and 2. mount a data cd
Now, I cannot do it through xfce. I get the HAL error message for both regular user and the root. So I have to do it manually. That's OK, I don't have a problem with this as long as I know that's the way it should be done. But, my regular user cannot mount. So what do I do? Use root to mount things (I don't think so and you'll probably say the same) or add the regular user to some kind of mount group and let it mount?

I'm just a bit lost with should usb and cd be mounted automatically or no?

T3slider · 02-08-2008, 04:54 PM

Did you read the huge thread on HAL (stickied at the top of this forum)? You need to add your users to the appropriate groups (plugdev, and cdrom -- you should also add them to the video and audio groups for good measure). This topic has been covered SO many times in these forums -- especially in the HAL thread stickied at the top of this forum. Try reading that and if you still have problems post again.

evilDagmar · 02-11-2008, 01:40 AM

I'll make it very explicit.

You don't need this 'vsupdfstab' program with Slackware 12.0.

Automounting USB removable media happens just fine if one merely adds one's user account to the plugdev group.

alkos333 · 12-12-2008, 02:04 PM

So I understand that HAL serves as an abstraction layer between the hardware and the software. I currently don't have HAL running at all and I'm wondering if I'm missing out on something very good, very useful.

Does HAL have any initial set-up that's used by Slackware itself? In other words, are there any applications or anything at all that require HAL or would work better/faster had it been installed or was HAL added for a general support for third party applications?

I haven't had any need for it yet, but I'm wondering if there's something going on behind the scenes that I don't know about that whether I should have HAL running.

Woodsman · 12-12-2008, 03:49 PM

If you have a static box then udev and hald might not be critical. I have two old boxes that I occasionally tinker with and I use neither service in those two old crates. I use the old rc.netdevice script to run my network cards. The hardware is static and manually mounting the occasional CD or floppy is not a big deal. Both boxes have the old 1.1 USB ports located in the back of the box and I never bother with that either.

alkos333 · 01-27-2009, 11:48 AM

I'm contemplating on how to automate a mounting process for my external HD, which runs LUKS and LVM. I'm considering automount, but maybe ivman would be more appropriate? I currently don't run HAL, but I'll install it if that's a better solution. Here are some of my thoughts on this: http://tinyurl.com/cbxnnj

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.