hald not seeing added disk (some times)

[Volker]

On 12/23/-58 20:59, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> Of late (and I can't quantify how late), hald seems to fail to see
> removable disks added to the system. I don't see any probes on the
> console and the disk is never mounted. I can mount the disk manually.
> 
> I have dbus-daemon, dbus-launch, polkitd, hald, and hald-runner are
> present. 
> 
> Any idea where to look for why this is happening? It's just a bit
> annoying.

Kevin,

I've also seen problems mounting removable media (USB memory sticks).

The usb memory sticks (several different, all using msdos FAT) have
been reported on insertion to messagelog + console but g-v-m did not
show them. Manually mounting using gnome-mount did not work. Manually
mounting using `mount -t msdosfs' worked.

lshal reported the usb device but did not show the filesystem on slice
1 (da0s1). Reformatting the usb media (newfs_msdos) helped and hal and
g-v-m are now seeing the volume again. I'm not quite sure if it has
been the fault of the fsys on usb stick or if there has been a code
change but the usb sticks were operable under Windows and a few days
before also on FreeBSD 6-STABLE (rebuilding world+kernel every other day).

HTH

Volker