Auto-mounting of USB drives

David Zeuthen david at fubar.dk
Thu Jul 8 08:18:15 PDT 2004


On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 09:44:32PM +0100, Lee Willis wrote:
> Ok - I'd tried with/without gnome-volume-manager running and got no joy.
> With g-v-m running I get the following output which probably hints at a
> borked dbus/hal setup?
> 
> >From hal:
> [W] hald_dbus.c:121 raise_no_such_property() : No property
> info.capabilities on device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_781_5150_10_-1_SNDK2F071433A5500608
> [W] hald_dbus.c:121 raise_no_such_property() : No property
> info.capabilities on device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usbif_usb_781_5150_10_-1_SNDK2F071433A5500608_0
> [W] hald_dbus.c:121 raise_no_such_property() : No property
> info.capabilities on device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_7
> [I] hald.c:73 gdl_store_changed() : Added device to GDL;
> udi=/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_device_7_0_0_0
> [I] linux/class_device.c:325 class_device_got_sysdevice() : Entering
> d=0x907c170, sysdevice=0x8f1bc38!
> [W] hald_dbus.c:121 raise_no_such_property() : No property
> info.capabilities on device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_device_7_0_0_0[W]
> linux/class_device.c:279 class_device_got_parent_device() : No parent
> for class device at sysfs path /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/temp/77
>  
> gnome-volume-manager:
> libhal.c 800 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_781_5150_10_-1_SNDK2F071433A5500608
> libhal.c 800 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usbif_usb_781_5150_10_-1_SNDK2F071433A5500608_0
> libhal.c 800 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_7
> libhal.c 800 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_device_7_0_0_0
> 

This is "normal"; it means that some devices (in this case devices
representing SCSI hosts and devices) is missing info.capabilities;
but this is not a problem (but should be fixed) as they merely act
as glue between other devices.

> Basically I have the following setup:
> 
> - Fedora Core 2 with standard dbus install (0.20-4.1)
> - HAL installed from CVS under /usr/local
> - gnome-volume-manager from CVS under /usr/local
> 
> My /etc/fstab doesn't seem to get updated by the fstab-update.sh
> callout.
> 

On FC2 there is a race with kudzu; uninstall kudzu or move the
/usr/sbin/updfstab out of the way.

Hope this helps,
David

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