xfce4 + hal can't/won't mount cdrom

James Butler sweetnavelorange at gmail.com
Mon May 28 07:02:06 UTC 2007


On 5/28/07, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at marcuscom.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 2007-05-28 at 14:50 +1200, James Butler wrote:
> > Hi Lists
> > I've just (Saturday) built a fresh -CURRENT with xorg-7.2, xfce-4.4.1_1and
> > HAL support. When I insert any cd in the drive, I get the cd icon
> appearing
> > on the desktop or in Thunar, but trying to open it gives an error
> dialog:
> >
> > Unable to mount "FreeBSD_Install":
> > Mount operation claims to be successfull [sic], but kernel doesn't list
> the
> > volume as mounted
> >
> > Any ideas? I have googled around with little luck.
> >
> > My rc.conf includes:
> > dbus_enable="YES"
> > hald_enable="YES"
> > polkitd_enable="YES"
> >
> > My user is in group 'operator'. I can manually mount cds without
> problems.
> >
> > I performed the steps suggested for HAL debugging in the freebsd-gnome
> FAQ,
> > the script session is available at
> > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sweetnavelorange/hal_trouble.txt
>
> You need to remove acd0 from /etc/fstab.
>
> Joe
>
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>
> Phew, that was painless. Thanks heaps.

-James


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