[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#492641: hal: Same here... workaround would be fine

[Olivier Berger]

Package: hal
Version: 0.5.11-3
Followup-For: Bug #492641

AFAICT, this is due to the behaviour imposed in a Debian patch (debian/patches/55_nonpolkit-mount-policy.patch), checking indeed if drive is removable.

I tried with no success to add a .fdi file trying to merge the storage.removable property on my drive on which I would have liked to be able to mount it as unpriviledged user, with no success.

Some workaround solution would be appreciated.

I'll try and add an entry in /etc/fstab in order to attempt to mount it as a regular user.

Hope this helps,


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages hal depends on:
ii  adduser           3.110                  add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus              1.2.1-3                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  hal-info          20080508+git20080601-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer - fdi f
ii  libc6             2.7-13                 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.2.1-3                simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2  0.76-1                 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libexpat1         2.0.1-4                XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii  libgcc1           1:4.3.2-1              GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0      2.16.6-1               The GLib library of C routines
ii  libhal-storage1   0.5.11-3               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libhal1           0.5.11-3               Hardware Abstraction Layer - share
ii  libsmbios1        0.13.13-1              Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa
ii  libstdc++6        4.3.2-1                The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libusb-0.1-4      2:0.1.12-12            userspace USB programming library
ii  libvolume-id0     0.125-7                libvolume_id shared library
ii  lsb-base          3.2-20                 Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  mount             2.13.1.1-1             Tools for mounting and manipulatin
ii  pciutils          1:3.0.0-4              Linux PCI Utilities
ii  pm-utils          1.1.2.4-1              utilities and scripts for power ma
ii  udev              0.125-7                /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  usbutils          0.73-10                Linux USB utilities

Versions of packages hal recommends:
ii  eject                       2.1.5+deb1-4 ejects CDs and operates CD-Changer
ii  libsmbios-bin               0.13.13-1    Provide access to (SM)BIOS informa

Versions of packages hal suggests:
ii  gnome-device-manager          0.2-2      GNOME device manager based on HAL

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