Cannot auto-mount digital camera

[Lachlan Michael]

On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 12:56 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 22:02 +0900, Lachlan Michael wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:16 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > 
> > > The camera may be getting unique handling.  Gvfs is built with gphoto2
> > > support by default.  When that is enabled, certain cameras will be
> > > available to gphoto, but perhaps not mountable.  Try rebuilding gvfs
> > > without gphoto support, and see if that helps.
> > 
> > It didn't help ... the same result. (I also rebuilt all ports depending
> > of gvfs) 
> > 
> > In the halfaq it states
> > 
> > > Understand that having hal alone does not mean media will get 
> > > automatically mounted. Hal simply serves as a broker for requests to 
> > > mount certain devices. Some other software needs to make this
> > > request.  As of GNOME 2.22, this is Nautilus. 
> > 
> > Since there is no problem with manual mounting or FreeBSD "seeing" the
> > devices, I guess the problem is with Nautilus. 
> > 
> > Is there some other debug output I can look at see what is going wrong?
> > (Nautilus options or something?) Could this be a symptom of
> > gnome-volume-manager trying to mount the camera instead of nautilus?
> > 
> > I also collected all the information again in case there is some
> > difference in the output. Please see
> > 
> > http://lachlan.lkla.org/tmp/Camera_2.22_Try2/
> 
> The only SCSI volume I see here is a da0 fixed storage device.  The
> camera is no longer creating a volume device.  But it is still labeled
> as a camera.  Try
> moving /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/information/10-camera-ptp.fdi out of the
> way, then try re-inserting the camera.

Problem solved. PEBKAC.

The /usr/local/etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf was incorrect. I found the
mistake by double checking all the steps. 

Sorry for the noise.

Does this kind of error appear in any logs?

Lachlan
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