USB storage devices no longer automount

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

Practically overnight, automounting of USB storage devices has stopped working: I unmounted and
plugged out an external drive, turned it off, moved the laptop, and plugged the drive in again,
no show.

I read https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-571068.html, but I don't have gparted installed,
and I wouldn't recognise a hal policy if it ... stepped on my toes

Re-emerging hal, dbus etc.
didn't change anything.

Can anyone help?

Voltago · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 6:51 pm Post subject:

KDE or Gnome?

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

Gnome.

More info: when I try to run "Removable Drives and Media" from the System/Preferences menu,
I eventually get a message

Volume management not supported
The "hald" service is required but not currently running. Enable the service and rerun this
application, or contact your system administrator.
Note: You need Linux kernel 2.6 for volume management to work.

Now, hald is running, but something strange is going on: both hald and dbus show up in ps with
their numerical user id

$ ps -ef |grep ^1
101 5159 1 0 17:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/bin/dbus-daemon --system
102 5861 1 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/hald --use-syslog --verbose=no
102 5888 5862 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyboard: listening on /dev/input/event2
102 5891 5862 0 17:41 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket

although both entries exist in /etc/password:

$ egrep ":101:|:102:" /etc/passwd
messagebus:x:101:407:added by portage for dbus:/dev/null:/bin/false
haldaemon:x:102:408:added by portage for hal:/dev/null:/bin/false

Voltago · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 7:15 pm Post subject:

Sorry, can't help you there, then.

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

Hhm. I came across this thread here https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-4143242.html,
and will try to emerge linux-headers, glibc, hal, and if that doesn't help, downgrade hal. After the
current update world to gnome-2.18.

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

It looks like the revdep-rebuild after the gnome 2.18 update has fixed it!

Princess Nell · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2005 Posts: 916

I spoke too soon - broke again after the next reboot. The only thing that ultimately fixed it was
downgrading hal to 0.5.7.1-r5.