HAL issue

[Matt]

On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at freebsd.org> wrote:
> yerenkow at uct.ua wrote:
>> Hello guys!
>> I'm not in list, so, please reply to me too.
>>
>> I've issues with hald on pc-bsd.
>> It's regular when have russian language, and labeled ntfs/cd drive.
>> when I click to mount in dolphin, nothing happens, only such records
>> added to /media/.hal-mtb:
>>
>> /dev/ad0s5s1    1001    0       ntfs    nosuid,-u=1001,-C=UTF-8
>> /media/disk-2
>> /dev/ad0s5s1    1001    0       ntfs    nosuid,-u=1001,-C=UTF-8
>> /media/disk-3
>> /dev/ad0s5s1    1001    0       ntfs    nosuid,-u=1001,-C=UTF-8
>> /media/disk-4
>> /dev/ad0s5s1    1001    0       ntfs    nosuid,-u=1001,-C=UTF-8
>> /media/disk-5
>> /dev/ad0s5s1    1001    0       ntfs    nosuid,-u=1001,-C=UTF-8
>> /media/disk-6
>
> I don't see any /dev/ad0s5s1 device in lshal or in GEOM.  This looks
> like a problem with whatever KDE is using to mount the device.  If KDE
> were to try and mount /dev/ntfs/stuff, it should work.  In fact, you
> could test that using gnome-mount which will do the mount via hald:
>
> gnome-mount -b -n -v --device /dev/ntfs/stuff
>
I've seen a similar issue in KDE4 that ended up being a dependent
kernel module that needed to be loaded.  See if you can kldload
ntfs_iconv before attempting to mount the volume in Dolphin.  You'll
need the cd9660_iconv module loaded for Dolphin to mount a CD volume.

Matt