[arch-general] hal has lost its mind again.

[David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.]

Listmates,

	On my laptop, automounting of usb drives and mmc/sd cards were working fine, 
now I get the "...mount.removable no <-- (action, result)" Full error dialog:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/Archlinux/bugs/hal-mount.removable.jpg

	The system configures the drives or cards just fine, it just will not create 
the directory under /media to allow access. It is really ironic because the 
drives/cards are fully accessible under "media:/". So, nothing in "/media", 
but OK in "media:/".

	I am concerned that changes made 
in /etc/hal/fdi/policy/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi to allow NTFS mounts 
messed something else up. The file contains:

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
	<device>
		<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
			<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
				<merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
				<merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
			</match>
		</match>
	</device>
</deviceinfo>

	which is straight from the wiki. The everything log contains the following:

May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: tifm_core: MMC/SD card detected in socket 0:1
May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmc1: new SD card at address e624
May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: isa bounce pool size: 16 pages
May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: mmc1:e624 SD02G 1.89 GiB 
May 17 02:50:23 alchemy kernel: mmcblk0: p1
May 17 02:55:20 alchemy hald: mounted /dev/mmcblk0p1 on behalf of uid 0
May 17 03:06:54 alchemy kernel: ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off 
interrupt mode.

	I don't know if the ACPI kernel message is evidence of the problem, but I 
included it just in case. I am slowly trying to make friends with hal/dbus, 
but I could use any help you can give in sorting this out. Thanks.

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David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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