Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:44:27 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Gruber <knightbg@yahoo.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: problems with hal and removable media Message-ID: <219985.47032.qm@web32404.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <1163734932.11889.45.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--- Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 19:08 -0800, Brian Gruber > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Like I guess a number of others, I've been having > > problems with removable media and hal. > > > > I've tried both a USB flash drive and a CD, > neither > > work. Mounting them in nautilus, the flash drive > just > > gives a message saying "cannot mount volume" while > the > > CD tells me I'm "not privileged." ... > > Try running hald in debugging mode: > > /usr/local/sbin/hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes > > Then repeat the steps, and collect the output on the > console. Also, be > sure you've followed all of the steps at > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome2/docs/faq2.html#q19 . > > Joe > This revealed that the problem was a lack of a /media directory (this is FreeBSD 6.1... I see that it's been added to the standard hier for 6.2). I also did need to remove the cd drives from /etc/fstab for it to work. thanks, /brian ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link $200,000 mortgage for $660/ mo - 30/15 yr fixed, reduce debt - http://yahoo.ratemarketplace.com
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