From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 10 19:10:13 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EFDBF106564A for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 19:10:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BA58FC12 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 19:10:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id q4AJADUO063117 for ; Thu, 10 May 2012 19:10:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.5/8.14.5/Submit) id q4AJADSr063116; Thu, 10 May 2012 19:10:13 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:10:13 GMT Message-Id: <201205101910.q4AJADSr063116@freefall.freebsd.org> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org From: Mel Flynn Cc: Subject: Re: ports/165318: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable" X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Mel Flynn List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 19:10:14 -0000 The following reply was made to PR ports/165318; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mel Flynn To: Jeremy Messenger Cc: mezz@freebsd.org, gnome@freebsd.org, bug-followup@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/165318: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable" Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 21:00:31 +0200 On 22-4-2012 18:03, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: >> On 3/17/2012 18:43, mezz@FreeBSD.org wrote: >>> Synopsis: sysutils/hal: Western Digital Passport no longer "removable" >>> >>> State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback >>> State-Changed-By: mezz >>> State-Changed-When: Sat Mar 17 17:43:16 UTC 2012 >>> State-Changed-Why: >>> Have you follow this yet?: http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/halfaq.html#q3 >> >> Yes. HalFaq was followed on installation of the desktop and at that time >> the disk was correctly identified as removable. >> >> Now, when we try to mount the disk the policykit error refers to >> mount-fixed permission, not mount-removable. The users have >> mount-removable permissions (and now mount-fixed as a work around). >> The lshal output provided with the report, clearly shows that removable >> is not set. I've done tracing in hald source to see where it gets it's >> info from and it points to cam, but I'm unable to figure out how to get >> that info from camcontrol(8). If you know a way how to do that, I'll add >> it to the report. > > Read in the manpage and the 'camcontrol inquiry ' will show > you if it's removable. > > # camcontrol inquiry cd0 > pass2: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device > pass2: 150.000MB/s transfers (SATA 1.x, UDMA5, ATAPI 12bytes, PIO 8192bytes) Ok, so it says "Fixed": % sudo camcontrol inquiry 2:0:1 pass2: Fixed Enclosure Services SCSI-4 device pass2: Serial Number 575837314337304132303839 pass2: 40.000MB/s transfers % sudo camcontrol inquiry da0 pass1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device pass1: Serial Number 575837314337304132303839 pass1: 40.000MB/s transfers Looks that hal does the right thing, yet something in cam changed to make it believe this is not removable. -- Mel