I thought that all removable media are handled now by udev and dbus and hal is almost not needed. Is the dbus daemon running? ps aux | grep dbus Are removable media in HAL-enabled kde3 handled by hal or udev? Sorry, I'm not helping you much. I have never used the "safely remove" feature. I always type "sync" in a terminal before I unplug a USB device but I don't know whether this takes care of everything. Gianluca On Mon, 18 Nov 2013, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Gianluca Interlandi <gianluca@u.washington.edu> írta:
Istvan,
Is udevd running?
Does
ps aux | grep udev
return something?
Sorry, I have an unrelated question. How did you manage to get hal to run? Are there special "hal-enabled kdebase3" packages?
Hello:
There are hal-enabled packages for openSUSE 12.3 KDE3, here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3:/HAL-enabled/openSUSE_12...
Previously the hal enabled packages worked for me in oS 12.1 and 12.2. Media automount and "safely remove" also worked.
Now in openSUSE 12.3 with hal-enabled KDE3 automount does not work, after plugin/inserting media nothing happens, no popup window/media notifier is shown.
The system recognizes the inserted medium (dmesg shows it, see my original post).
When hal-enabled KDE is installed, ps aux | grep udev shows:
:~> ps -aux |grep udevd root 281 0.0 0.0 38752 2008 ? Ss 17:59 0:00 /usr/lib/systemd/systemd-udevd user 28650 0.0 0.0 8312 860 pts/2 S+ 18:18 0:00 grep --color=auto udevd
I have deinstalled hal-enabled kdebase3 and installed normal (not hal-enabled) kdebase3 packages from http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_12.3/ repo.
With these packages automounting of inserted media works, media notifier popup shows, and I the medium is mounted in /media.
But unfortunately I can not use safely-remove. When I try to use safely-remove, an error message is shown. The error window is titled "Error - kio_media_mounthelper", and the error text is:
'Unable to unmount "/dev/sdd1". Reason: not authorized to perform operation"
And, when I right click on the mounted device icon and select properties, the tab, where mount properties can be edited, is missing. In that tab I could edit different mount options (for example vfat filesystem characterset).
I could find another message describing the same problem, here on opensuse-kde3 list:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kde3/2012-10/msg00010.html
No answer to that question either.
No one knows how to fix this?
Thanks,
Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde3+owner@opensuse.org
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