getting hal and gnome volume manager to work

[Eric Butler]

You need to set up fstab-sync so your flash drive is added to fstab.

Grab the latest dbus and hal CVS and run configure with --enable-fstab-sync.
Then make sure  you have fstab-sync.hal symlinked into your hal device.d 
directory (on my system it's /usr/local/etc/hal/device.d/)

$ ls -l /usr/local/etc/hal/device.d/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 26 Aug 30 21:43 fstab-sync.hal -> 
/usr/local/sbin/fstab-sync

HAL looks in this directory for files ending in .hal and executes them 
when a new device is found. Fstab-sync will append the new device to 
fstab so gnome-vfs will see it.

This is all assuming you have a patched gnome-vfs installed of course.

- Eric

Spundun Bhatt wrote:

> Hi... I am trying to get gnome-volume-manager to work for usb flash
> drives on my computer.
>
> My ultimate goal is to basically be able to insert a usb flash drive and
> for my computer to figurout an appropriate place to mount it and shouw
> the mounted file system in a nautilus window.
>
> I installed linux 2.6, gnome 2.6 dbus, hal,gnome-volume-manager,hotplug,
> udev and autofs (I uninstalled autofs now because I thought it wasnt
> necessary).
>
> But when I insert a usb drive... it doesnt automount and show me  a new
> drive in the "computer" in nautilus.
>
> in hal-device-manaer I do see my usb drive in the device tree.
> ps -aux |grep shows me both hald and g-v-m running... I have made sure
> that /etc/init.d/hotplug start  is done.
>
> What am I missing?
> Thanx
> Spundun
>
> Here is some shell activity that might give more clues as to what I am
> doing right/wrong
> cycloid:/usr/bin# ps aux|grep volume
> root      4464  0.0  0.1  1572  464 pts/0    S+   16:10   0:00 grep 
> volume
> cycloid:/usr/bin# ps aux |grep hal
> root      3183  0.0  1.5  5276 3820 ?        Ss   15:35   0:00
> /usr/sbin/hald
> root      4466  0.0  0.1  1576  492 pts/0    S+   16:10   0:00 grep hal
> cycloid:/usr/bin# ps aux|grep volume
> cycloid:/usr/bin# gnome-volume-manager
> <at this point g-v-m seems to run but not display any window (it seems
> to require x connection though).. so the shell just waits until I ctrl-c>
> cycloid:/usr/bin# ps aux|grep volume
> cycloid:/usr/bin# gnome-volume-properties
>
> ** (gnome-volume-manager:4559): WARNING **: manager.c/740: already 
> running?
> <at this point I see the properties dialog which I close without doing
> anything>
> cycloid:/usr/bin# ps aux|grep volume
> root      4557  0.3  2.4 14368 6184 pts/0    S    16:11   0:00
> /usr/bin/gnome-volume-manager
> root      4561  0.0  0.1  1572  464 pts/0    S+   16:12   0:00 grep 
> volume
> <note that this got g-v-m started>
> cycloid:/usr/bin#
> <at this point I insert a usb flash drive into the machine and I get
> following errors on the same shell window>
> libhal.c 818 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_d7d_280_100_-1_4F4106840F5Dlibhal.c 818
> : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on device with id
> /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usbif_usb_d7d_280_100_-1_4F4106840F5D_0
> libhal.c 818 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_host_2
> libhal.c 818 : Error sending msg: No property info.capabilities on
> device with id /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/scsi_device_2_0_0_0
> mount: can't find /dev/sda1 in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab
>
> cycloid:/usr/bin#
>
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