Package: hal Version: 0.5.7-2 Followup-For: Bug #377689
-- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-4-mario-1 Locale: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) Versions of packages hal depends on: ii adduser 3.95 Add and remove users and groups ii dbus 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libc6 2.3.6-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libdbus-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.62-4 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libexpat1 1.95.8-3.2 XML parsing C library - runtime li ii libglib2.0-0 2.10.3-3 The GLib library of C routines ii libhal1 0.5.7-2 Hardware Abstraction Layer - share ii libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-2 userspace USB programming library ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii pciutils 1:2.2.1-2 Linux PCI Utilities ii udev 0.093-1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemo ii usbutils 0.72-4 USB console utilities hal recommends no packages. -- no debconf information I can confirm bug #377689 in my system. I have added the following lines to /etc/dbus-1/system.d/hal.conf: <!-- Allow plugdev members to mount volumes --> <policy group="plugdev"> <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume"/> <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.Crypto"/> </policy> This makes mounting work again, but I needed to remove the DVD and external USB drive entries from /etc/fstab. With the entries active in /etc/fstab, when trying to mount some device through KDE I obtained the error "Permissions denied". I think this is related to conflicting mountpoints in /etc/fstab and what KDE wants (you can find mountpoints KDE wants in the properties dialog of each removable device). KDE forces mount point to be under /media/ subdirectory and the ones I had in /etc/fstab where under /mnt/ Also, another bug is that when you have some file descriptor open on the device (such as a console) and you try to umount or eject the device via the right-button menu, it just fails _silently_, with no error messages. The previous behaviour was to alert with an error. Reading the KDE changelog and the bugreports on kde.org related to the new HAL features, it seems KDE 3.5.4 now should notice the user about open applications that block the device, but I am not really sure about this point. Please see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=50185. Thanks in advance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
