From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 21 22:45:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4DF16A407 for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:45:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (hen.cisco.com [64.102.19.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D1D13C44C for ; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:45:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) X-TACSUNS: Virus Scanned Received: from rooster.cisco.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by av-tac-rtp.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id kBLMXfr10562; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:33:41 -0500 (EST) Received: from [64.102.192.202] (dhcp-64-102-192-202.cisco.com [64.102.192.202]) by rooster.cisco.com (8.11.7p3+Sun/8.11.7) with ESMTP id kBLMXeq10933; Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:33:40 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <458B0BD0.7070805@FreeBSD.org> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:33:52 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Nottebrock References: <200612212154.27696.molnarcs@gmail.com> <200612212325.29958.lofi@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200612212325.29958.lofi@freebsd.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: molnarcs@gmail.com, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HAL with new kdebase (permission problems) X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 22:45:12 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Nottebrock wrote: > On Thursday, 21. December 2006 21:54, Csaba Molnar wrote: >> Hello! >> >> I installed kdebase with HAL support - it is still greyed out in kcontrol, >> but seems to work. > > That's normal - the ability to switch from HAL to fstab and back at runtime > disappeared a while ago, but nobody ever removed the checkbox. > >> However, when I try to mount an usb memory stick, it >> complains about a permission problem. > > First up, make sure you have the latest version of kdebase, kdebase-3.5.5_1. > > Then check /usr/ports/UPDATING - I added a few HAL-specific issues to the > latest entry for kdebase. > >> Mounting it in a traditional way works. > > Does that mean you have an /etc/fstab entry for it? That needs to go, hal > refuses to mount devices listed in fstab (commenting it out will work, too). > >> My user is in groups wheel and >> operator, vfs.usermount is on > > Just FYI, vfs.usermount is not required for mounting devices with HAL, neither > is any group membershit. > Not true. You need to be a member of the operator group to mount removable media with HAL unless KDE is not going through D-BUS for mounting. Joe - -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFiwvQb2iPiv4Uz4cRAgmhAJsEGF6mZba7EzZpUHHtOQN5xmLGHACgpyI9 0DN8RSYakXhAN6JKGJmIKt8= =qJqt -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----