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

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jan 4 20:11:41 PST 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 22:08 -0600, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 19:34:21 -0600, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org>  
> wrote:
> 
> >
> > 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.
> 
> Nope, still same result.

Then you'll need to get the debugging output on the FAQ.  Also, look at
my recent email, and get the lshal comparisons as that may shed some
light on why this is not working.  Even though the discs don't "mount"
can you still burn them?

Joe

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