Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 06:31:56 +0000 From: Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: FreeBSD Gnome Team <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: "Volume management not supported" error when attempting to run Removable Drives and Media Message-ID: <20061101063156.GB895@crom.vickiandstacey.com> In-Reply-To: <1162348521.79678.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <20061031221144.GB943@crom.vickiandstacey.com> <1162348521.79678.4.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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Hello Joe,
Thanks for getting back to me.
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:11 +0000, Stacey Roberts wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've recently upgraded this machine to gnome2-2.16.1_2 (as of yesterday=
), and I noticed that
> > I get the following error message when attempting to use the menu progr=
am Removable Drives
> > and Media:
> >=20
> > Volume management not supported
> >=20
> > The "hald" service is required but not currently running. Enable the se=
rvice and rerun this
> > application, or contact your system administrator.
> >=20
> > Note: You need sysutils/hal installed for volume management to work.
> >=20
> > However, checking for what the message informs me I need to have runnin=
g, here's what I've
> > got installed and running at the time the error was displayed:
> >=20
> > # ps waux | grep -i dbus
> > stacey 808 0.0 0.1 2060 1524 ?? Is Mon09pm 0:00.11 /usr/=
local/bin/dbus-daemon
> > --fork --print-pid 8 --print-address 6
> > stacey 807 0.0 0.1 2500 1288 v0 I Mon09pm 0:00.00 dbus-=
launch
> > --exit-with-session gnome-session
> > # ps waux | grep -i hal
> > haldaemon 623 0.0 0.3 4572 2924 ?? Ss Mon09pm 0:25.55 /usr/=
local/sbin/hald
> > root 624 0.0 0.2 3772 2016 ?? I Mon09pm 0:00.05 hald-=
runner
> > root 640 0.0 0.1 2860 1392 ?? S Mon09pm 0:51.84 hald-=
addon-storage:
> > /dev/acd0 (hald-addon-storage)
> > root 643 0.0 0.1 2860 1332 ?? S Mon09pm 0:28.22 hald-=
addon-storage:
> > /dev/sa0 (hald-addon-storage)
> > root 75329 0.0 0.3 4940 2804 p3 RV+ 9:59pm 0:00.00 grep =
-i hal (csh)
> > #=20
>=20
> Neither polkitd nor dbus-daemon (in system mode) are running. Kill off
> the hald process, then run /usr/local/etc/rc.d/dbus start. You should
> see a dbus-daemon process running with a --system argument. If not,
> not, you may have a problem with dbus. You can try
> running /usr/local/bin/dbus-daemon --system --nofork and see if you get
> any errors.
>=20
> If dbus-daemon starts up correctly, start up polkitd
> with /usr/local/etc/rc.d/polkitd start. If that works, then start hald.
> When everything is up, you should be able to run lshal, and actually see
> a device list.
I got round this in the end., I had some legacy entries in the account's .x=
initrc:
"exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session gnome-session"
that I changed to simply read: "exec gnome-session", rebooted, and this now=
that menu
application works fine for me now.
Thanks again for the assistance.
Regards,
Stacey
>=20
> Joe
>=20
> --=20
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