Here's result.. [WAS Re: Updated hal]

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 17:24 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> <snip>
> >>>> I will testing with GNOME 2.20 first. A stable desktop should give a
> >>>> better result to figure which problem is in hal or GNOME.
> >>
> >>> The GNOME comes up fine. If I put either blank CD or DVD and the 'blank
> >>> CD/DVD' doesn't appear in the desktop anymore. It couldn't recogize. If
> >>> I put USB flash drive and I can see icon pops up in nautilus, but I
> >>> couldn't mount and double click on icon to get in. It would keeps take
> >>> me to / instead of in USB flash drive. When I tried to mount in USB
> >>> flash drive (vfat) and I get this below.
> >>
> >>> Jan  4 13:17:34 mezz kernel: mount option <uhelper> is unknown
> >>
> >>> I am not sure if it has to do with disable PK. I will going to our FAQ
> >>> to learn how to debug HAL and get back to you this afternoon.
> >
> > Remove the --enable-umount-helper from the Makefile, and remove
> > umount.hal from pkg-plist.  See if that helps.
> 
> Remove the --enable-umount-helper from Makefile helps to get USB flash  
> drive to function correct. Now icon of USB flash drive appears on desktop  
> and auto-mount/open nautilus to browser in there. It works perfect. I  
> always wondering why HAL is damn faster than Windows to recognize the USB  
> flash drive. ;-)
> 
> As for the CD/DVD, it makes no difference. It is still same with no  
> --enable-umount-helper. Do you want me to fill out more details from our  
> FAQ for this issue?

At line 380 of hald/freebsd/probing/probe-volume.c, change the line to:

if (! has_children)

And see if that fixes this problem.

Joe

-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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