[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#406390: libhal-storage1: affecting auto-mount in latest etch

[Adam Hardy]

Package: libhal-storage1
Version: 0.5.8.1-9
Followup-For: Bug #406390

On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 00:05:44 +0000, Adam Hardy wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer on 24/02/08 23:05, wrote:
>>>> >>>> On Sun February 24 2008, Adam Hardy wrote:
>>>>> >>>>> Using xfce, Thunar used to pick up on the new usb storage device and put an
>>>>> >>>>> icon in its tree pane for me with the usb stick's name. Clicking on that
>>>>> >>>>> would then mount it to /media 
>>>>> >>>>>
>>>>> >>>>> hal still creates /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 but I can't see it as a mounted
>>>>> >>>>> file system.

[...]

>> >> I think the next thing to try is what happens if your run (as your
>> >> normal user)
>> >>
>> >> pmount-hal /dev/sda1
>> >>
>> >> (Change /dev/sda1 to the correct device node of the filesystem.) If this
>> >> works without errors, run "mount" to see which mount point was chosen.
>> >> Also check if you can unmount the stick (again as your normal user) with
>> >>
>> >> pumount /dev/sda1
> >
> > That's good. My user can mount it with pmount-hal at /media/adam for one 
> > stick, and /media/usbstick for another, and pumount it again. So that is 
> > probably the command that Thunar issues.
> >
> > It also gives me this message:
> >
> > libhal-storage.c 1401 : INFO: called LIBHAL_FREE_DBUS_ERROR but dbusError 
> > was not set.
> > process 23617: Applications must not close shared connections - see  
> > dbus_connection_close() docs. This is a bug in the application.
> >
> > Perhaps this is an indication that there's something wrong still which 
> > prevents the system from executing pmount-hal automatically.

It seems that you are not the only one having this problem, and it is
not limited to thunar:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=406390

Do you have a completely up-to-date system? (kernel, udev, hal, libhal1,
libhal-storage1, dbus, libdbus-*)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.20.6.20070410
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages libhal-storage1 depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3            1.0.2-1           simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libhal1                0.5.8.1-9         Hardware Abstraction Layer - share

libhal-storage1 recommends no packages.

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