ports/116210: NexStar3 external usb hard drive enclosure will not mount with sysutils/hal and dbus

[Chess Griffin]

On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 15:54:42 -0400
Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 19:30 +0000, Chess Griffin wrote:
> > The following reply was made to PR ports/116210; it has been noted
> > by GNATS.
> > 
> > From: Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com>
> > To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, chess.griffin at gmail.com
> > Cc:  
> > Subject: Re: ports/116210: NexStar3 external usb hard drive
> > enclosure will not mount with sysutils/hal and dbus
> > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2007 15:19:54 -0400
> > 
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> >  Thank you for the help.  I verified that my /etc/rc.conf contains:
> >  
> >  dbus_enable=3D"YES"
> >  polkitd_enable=3D"YES"
> >  hald_enable=3D"YES"
> >  
> >  I also verified that my user was a member of the 'operator'
> > group.  I can mount other removable media, such as my Cowon iAudio
> > mp3 player with no problems in Gnome/Xfce.
> >  
> >  Anyway, I captured the output of the items requested at the link
> > you provided.  The following is that output:
> 
> The file system on this drive is ext3fs which is not supported by the
> release of HAL in the ports tree.  If you check the archives of this
> list, you will find a patch.
> 
> Joe
> 
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Yep, that took care of it.  For posterity's sake, the patch is located
here:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gnome/2007-July/017863.html

Will it be possible to make this patch permanent to the port?

Thank you for all the help.

Chess

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Chess Griffin
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