[arch-general] org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action, result)

[Christopher Daley]

Do you have ntfs-3g installed?

On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 1:42 PM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. <
drankinatty at suddenlinkmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 04 May 2009 07:37:50 flashkot wrote:
> > 2009/5/4 Angel Velásquez <angvp at archlinux.com.ve>
> >
> > > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:09 AM, David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
> > >
> > > >        org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable no <-- (action,
> > >
> > > result)
> > >
> > > Did you tried [0] ?
> > >
> > > [0] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Auto-mounting_fails
> >
> > This also may help:
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HAL#Mounting_fails
> >
> > I once has a problem with automount and this tip helped.
> >
> > WBR,
> > flashkot
>
> Man that is frustrating. Still unable to mount the NTFS partitions on the
> removable disk.
>
> The wiki helped with the ext3 partitions, but I still do not understand why
> man hal was wrong on suggesting the following (3) scenarios:
>
> <define_admin_auth group="wheel"/>
>
> Should give members of the wheel group full access to all mounts, but it
> did
> not?
>
>        <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.mount-removable">
>                <match group="users">
>                        <return result="yes"/>
>                </match>
>        </match>
>
> Should give group "users" (the default group GID 100) the ability to mount
> removable devices but it did not?
>
>        <match user="david">
>                <return result="yes"/>
>        </match>
>
> Should give "me" full access to mounting/unmounting, but it did not?
>
>        The question then becomes why did the following work for ext3:
>
>        <match user="david">
>                <match action="org.freedesktop.hal.storage.*">
>                        <return result="yes"/>
>                </match>
>                <match action="hal-storage-mount-fixed-extra-options">
>                        <return result="yes" />
>                </match>
>                <match action="hal-storage-mount-removable-extra-options">
>                         <return result="yes" />
>                </match>
>        </match>
>
>         Why in the world did this <match user="david"> work when the one
> just above
> didn't? One of my goals in life is to avoid looking in /etc/hal
> and /etc/dbus-1 ... I'm failing miserably ;-)
>
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