From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG  Sat May 14 18:45:58 2011
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B5F51065678
	for <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 14 May 2011 18:45:58 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from marcus@freebsd.org)
Received: from av-tac-sj.cisco.com (firebird.cisco.com [171.68.227.73])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DE18FC14
	for <freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>; Sat, 14 May 2011 18:45:58 +0000 (UTC)
X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned
Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost.cisco.com [127.0.0.1])
	by av-tac-sj.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4EIjtGC029728;
	Sat, 14 May 2011 11:45:55 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from fruit-rollup.marcuscom.com (jclarke-pc.cisco.com
	[172.18.254.236])
	by rooster.cisco.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8) with ESMTP id p4EIjngj006127; 
	Sat, 14 May 2011 14:45:49 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <4DCECDDD.3050300@freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 14:45:49 -0400
From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@freebsd.org>
Organization: FreeBSD, Inc.
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US;
	rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <20110509195131.GF1968@uriah.heep.sax.de>	<4DCEC83B.8000600@freebsd.org>
	<20110514183728.GB1927@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20110514183728.GB1927@uriah.heep.sax.de>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, Joerg Wunsch <joerg@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion to add to HAL FAQ
X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining
	<freebsd-gnome.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>,
	<mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome>,
	<mailto:freebsd-gnome-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 18:45:58 -0000

On 5/14/11 2:37 PM, Joerg Wunsch wrote:
> As Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
>> I mention this in the HAL FAQ in question 3 (How do I mount media using
>> HAL):
> 
>> NOTE: Volumes that you wish to manage using hal should NOT be listed in
>> /etc/fstab. This is especially true for CD devices and floppy disk devices.
> 
> Sheesh, I missed that one. :-/
> 
>> What if I extend this note to mention the error you might see if the
>> fstab entry is still present?
> 
> Yes, that would certainly make sense because I hope it's easier to
> spot if you start with just the error message.
> 
> Thanks!

Done.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome