Where are block@... database entries?

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 06:56:17PM +0400, Eugene Crosser wrote:
> [About CD/VDV not being mounted on insert]
> 
> Kay Sievers wrote:
> 
> >>>No, 0.5.4 should work. Here is the HAL ChangeLog:
> >>>  http://cvs.freedesktop.org/hal/hal/ChangeLog?rev=1.546&view=markup
> >>
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>>Looking at the HAL debug output may show something:
> >>>  http://hal.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fHalTraces
> >>
> >>Ok, at the very least, now I know where to look next.  Thanks for that! :-)
> > 
> > 
> > Look with "lshal" if your cdrom is recognized by HAL. If not, but
> > udev has created a device node for it, post the debug HAL prints to the
> > console to:
> >   hal at lists.freedesktop.org
> 
> I figured the cause of HAL not realizing that /dev/hdX is a CDROM: it
> was running as 'haldaemon' user in the group 'haldeamon', whereas
> /dev/hd* belong to root:disk and root:cdrom with mode 660.  HAL was
> trying to open devices, but failed.  When I specified in /etc/group that
> haldaemon is a member of 'disk' and 'cdrom' groups, automount magically
> began to work!
> 
> I wonder what would be the proper setup?  I don't seem to find any
> relevant directions on the web...

[removing hotplug-devel list]

Just run HAL with --retain-privileges.
(The default behavior of HAL is to drop the privileges, but that is not very useful
 and that mess needs to be fixed some day.)

Kay